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title: In Article 70 it is mentioned as an official language if the authori… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: In Article 70 it is mentioned as an official language if the authorities communicate with persons who speak Romansh. Who acts: authorities, persons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 490

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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 Article 70 it is mentioned as an official language if the authorities communicate with persons who speak Romansh.

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**Who acts:** authorities, persons · **What happens:** mention, communicate, speak · **To what, where:** study, Article, Romansh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (authorities, persons), 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:490
# text = In Article 70 it is mentioned as an official language if the authorities communicate with persons who speak Romansh.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Article	Article	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	communicate	communicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	Romansh	Romansh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | study |  | Article |  | as a official language | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **communicate** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the authorities |  |  |  |  | with persons | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with person=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | persons | Romansh |  |  |  |  | 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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