--- title: In addition, Switzerland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest thri… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics description: In addition, Switzerland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest thrice, in 1956 (the inaugural edition, held in Lugano), 1989 (Lausanne), and 2025 (Basel), and won three times, through Lys Assia in 1956, Celine Dion in 1988, and Nemo in 2024. Who acts: 1956. 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In addition, Switzerland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest thrice, in 1956 (the inaugural edition, held in Lugano), 1989 (Lausanne), and 2025 (Basel), and won three times, through Lys Assia in 1956, Celine Dion in 1988, and Nemo in 2024. **Who acts:** 1956 · **What happens:** host, hold, win · **To what, where:** Switzerland, addition, inaugural edition, Lugano, Nemo, Lys Assia 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 (1956), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:557 # text = In addition, Switzerland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest thrice, in 1956 (the inaugural edition, held in Lugano), 1989 (Lausanne), and 2025 (Basel), and won three times, through Lys Assia in 1956, Celine Dion in 1988, and Nemo in 2024. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 hosted host VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 Eurovision Eurovision PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Song Song PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Contest Contest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 thrice thrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl:agent _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 inaugural inaugural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 edition edition NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Lugano Lugano PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 appos _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Lausanne Lausanne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl:agent _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Basel Basel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 38 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 Lys Lys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Assia Assia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Celine Celine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 48 Dion Dion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 1988 1988 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 Nemo Nemo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **host** | present · perfect · passive | 1956 | Switzerland | | addition | | the Contest thrice *obj*; 2025 *obl:agent* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme thrice=Beneficiary | | 2 | **hold** | participle | | the inaugural edition *not said here* | | Lugano | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lugano=Location | | 3 | **win** | past | | Nemo | | Lys Assia in 1956 and Celine | time | in 1988; in 2024 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nemo=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 556](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Switzerland/556/) - next →: [sentence 558](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Switzerland/558/) - ↑ back to [Switzerland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Switzerland/)