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title: Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway; it handled 31.2 million passengers in 2024. Who acts: Zurich Airport, network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 458

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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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Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway; it handled 31.2 million passengers in 2024.

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**Who acts:** Zurich Airport, network · **What happens:** be, handle · **To what, where:** largest international flight gateway, million passengers, 2024

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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 (Zurich Airport, 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:458
# text = Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway; it handled 31.2 million passengers in 2024.
1	Zurich	Zurich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
7	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	handled	handle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	31.2	31.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Zurich Airport | Switzerland's largest international flight gateway |  |  |  | Switzerland *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **handle** | past | network | million passengers |  | 2024 |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=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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