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title: The Swiss began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian W… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Swiss began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian War of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", Eidgenossen (literally: comrades by oath), used since the 14th century. Who acts: Swiss. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 27

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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 Swiss began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian War of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", Eidgenossen (literally: comrades by oath), used since the 14th century.

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**Who acts:** Swiss · **What happens:** begin, adopt, use · **To what, where:** name, comrades

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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 (Swiss), 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:27
# text = The Swiss began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian War of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", Eidgenossen (literally: comrades by oath), used since the 14th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Swiss	Swiss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Swabian	Swabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1499	1499	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Confederates	confederate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Eidgenossen	Eidgenossen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
36	since	since	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	39	amod	_	_
39	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Swiss |  |  |  |  | comrades by oath *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **adopt** | to-infinitive | the Swiss *not said here* | the name |  |  | after the Swabian War of 1499 | for cantons *= canton* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | participle | the Swiss *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alongside the term for Confederates; Eidgenossen *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  | comrades by oath *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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