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title: Slightly more than 5 million people work in Switzerland; about 25% o… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: Slightly more than 5 million people work in Switzerland; about 25% of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004. Who acts: million people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 411

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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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Slightly more than 5 million people work in Switzerland; about 25% of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004.

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**Who acts:** million people · **What happens:** work, belong · **To what, where:** 2004

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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 (million people), 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:411
# text = Slightly more than 5 million people work in Switzerland; about 25% of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004.
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	employees	employee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | million people |  |  |  |  | in Switzerland | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in switzerland=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** | past |  |  |  | 2004 |  | to a trade union | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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