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title: The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High Ger… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, perhaps related to swedan 'to burn' (cf. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 29

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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 toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, perhaps related to swedan 'to burn' (cf.

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**What happens:** attest, burn · **To what, where:** toponym, 972, cf

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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: 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:29
# text = The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, perhaps related to swedan 'to burn' (cf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toponym	toponym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Schwyz	Schwyz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	attested	attest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	972	972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	High	High	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Suittes	Suitte	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	swedan	swedan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attest** | past · passive |  | the toponym |  | 972 |  | Old High German Suittes *conj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  | cf |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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