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title: The country continued to produce successful racing drivers such as C… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The country continued to produce successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Sébastien Buemi, Jo Siffert, Dominique Aegerter, successful World Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu, 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fässler and 2015 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Nico Müller. Who acts: 
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# Switzerland, sentence 624

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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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The country continued to produce successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Sébastien Buemi, Jo Siffert, Dominique Aegerter, successful World Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu, 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fässler and 2015 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Nico Müller.

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**Who acts:** country, successful racing drivers, 24 Hours · **What happens:** continue, produce, tour, nürburgr · **To what, where:** successful racing drivers, Alain, winner

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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 (country, successful racing drivers, 24 Hours), 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:624
# text = The country continued to produce successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Sébastien Buemi, Jo Siffert, Dominique Aegerter, successful World Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu, 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fässler and 2015 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Nico Müller.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	Clay	Clay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Regazzoni	Regazzoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Sébastien	Sébastien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Buemi	Buemi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	Siffert	Siffert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Dominique	Dominique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	Aegerter	Aegerter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
25	Touring	tour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
26	Car	Car	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Championship	championship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Alain	Alain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	Menu	Menu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	Hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Mans	Man	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Marcel	Marcel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	Fässler	Fässler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	compound	_	_
43	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	Hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
45	Nürburgring	nürburgr	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
46	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	Nico	Nico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Müller	Müller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the country |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **produce** | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* | successful racing drivers |  |  |  | such Clay Regazzoni and Sébastien and Jo and Dominique and successful World | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Result |
| 3 | **tour** | gerund | successful racing drivers *not said here* | Alain  Car Championship driver and 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans  winner Marcel and 24 Hours |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent alain=Location |
| 4 | **nürburgr** | gerund | 24 Hours *not said here* | winner |  |  |  |  | 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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