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title: Immigrants from Sri Lanka (1.3%), most of them former Tamil refugees… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: Immigrants from Sri Lanka (1.3%), most of them former Tamil refugees, were the largest group of Asian origin (7.9%). Who acts: most, Immigrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 481

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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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Immigrants from Sri Lanka (1.3%), most of them former Tamil refugees, were the largest group of Asian origin (7.9%).

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**Who acts:** most, Immigrants · **What happens:** refugee, be · **To what, where:** largest group

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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 (most, Immigrants), 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:481
# text = Immigrants from Sri Lanka (1.3%), most of them former Tamil refugees, were the largest group of Asian origin (7.9%).
1	Immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1.3	1.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	7.9	7.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refugee** |  | most of Immigrants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Immigrants from Sri and former Tamil refugees | the largest group |  |  |  | of Asian origin | tree rules |

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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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