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title: The English name Switzerland compounds Switzer, an obsolete term for… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The English name Switzerland compounds Switzer, an obsolete term for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, with the common English suffix -land denoting a region or country. Who acts: English name, Swiss person, common English suffix land. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Swit
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# Switzerland, sentence 24

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From Wikipedia, [«Switzerland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The English name Switzerland compounds Switzer, an obsolete term for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, with the common English suffix -land denoting a region or country.

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**Who acts:** English name, Swiss person, common English suffix land · **What happens:** compound, be, denote · **To what, where:** Switzer, use, region

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Switzerland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English name, Swiss person, common English suffix land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Switzerland:24
# text = The English name Switzerland compounds Switzer, an obsolete term for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, with the common English suffix -land denoting a region or country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	compounds	compound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Switzer	Switzer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	obsolete	obsolete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	suffix	suffix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
33	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compound** | present | the English name | Switzer |  |  | century | with the common English suffix land | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent switzer=Patient with land=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a Swiss person |  |  | use | during the 16th |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **denote** | gerund | the common English suffix land *not said here* | a region or country |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot region=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Switzerland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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