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title: In 15 BC, Tiberius (later the second Roman emperor) and his brother… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: In 15 BC, Tiberius (later the second Roman emperor) and his brother Drusus conquered the Alps, integrating them into the Roman Empire. Who acts: Tiberius. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 49

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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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In 15 BC, Tiberius (later the second Roman emperor) and his brother Drusus conquered the Alps, integrating them into the Roman Empire.

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**Who acts:** Tiberius · **What happens:** conquer, integrate · **To what, where:** Alps, 15

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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 (Tiberius), 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:49
# text = In 15 BC, Tiberius (later the second Roman emperor) and his brother Drusus conquered the Alps, integrating them into the Roman Empire.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Tiberius	Tiberius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	Drusus	Drusus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	integrating	integrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Tiberius and BC's brother | the Alps |  | 15  BC |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alp=Patient |
| 2 | **integrate** | gerund | Tiberius and BC's brother *not said here* | Alps *= alp* |  |  |  | into the Roman Empire | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into empire=Co-Patient |

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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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