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title: The densest rail network in Europe spans 5250 km and carried 614 mil… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The densest rail network in Europe spans 5250 km and carried 614 million passengers in 2023. Who acts: densest rail network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 446

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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 densest rail network in Europe spans 5250 km and carried 614 million passengers in 2023.

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**Who acts:** densest rail network · **What happens:** span, carry · **To what, where:** 5250 km, million passengers, 2023

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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 (densest rail network), 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:446
# text = The densest rail network in Europe spans 5250 km and carried 614 million passengers in 2023.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	densest	dense	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	spans	span	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	5250	5250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	614	614	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **span** | present | the densest rail network in Europe | 5250 km |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the densest rail network in Europe *not said here* | million passengers |  | 2023 |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent passenger=Value in 2023=Location |

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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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