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title: The territories of present-day Switzerland became divided into Middl… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The territories of present-day Switzerland became divided into Middle Francia and East Francia until they were reunified under the Holy Roman Empire around 1000 AD. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 65

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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 territories of present-day Switzerland became divided into Middle Francia and East Francia until they were reunified under the Holy Roman Empire around 1000 AD.

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**What happens:** divide, reunify · **To what, where:** territories, Middle Francia, Francia, Holy Roman Empire

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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: 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:65
# text = The territories of present-day Switzerland became divided into Middle Francia and East Francia until they were reunified under the Holy Roman Empire around 1000 AD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Francia	Francia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Francia	Francia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	reunified	reunify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
23	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | the territories of present day |  | Middle Francia and East |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reunify** | past · passive |  | Francia |  | the Holy Roman Empire |  | around 1000 AD | 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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