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title: The constitution outlines rights of individuals and citizen particip… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The constitution outlines rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs, divides the powers between the confederation and the cantons and defines federal jurisdiction and authority. Who acts: constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Switzerland, sentence 246

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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 constitution outlines rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs, divides the powers between the confederation and the cantons and defines federal jurisdiction and authority.

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**Who acts:** constitution · **What happens:** outline, divide, define · **To what, where:** rights, powers, federal jurisdiction

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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 (constitution), 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:246
# text = The constitution outlines rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs, divides the powers between the confederation and the cantons and defines federal jurisdiction and authority.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	outlines	outline	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cantons	canton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	defines	define	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outline** *speech: other* | present | the constitution | rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Topic |
| 2 | **divide** | present | the constitution *not said here* | the powers and the cantons |  |  |  | between the confederation | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 3 | **define** | present | the constitution *not said here* | federal jurisdiction and authority |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jurisdiction=Theme |

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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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