Ottawa, sentence 109
From Wikipedia, «Ottawa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The National Capital Commission's structure supplanted the Federal District Commission, which was established in 1927 with a 16-year funding commitment but was reliant on the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities.
Who acts: structure · What happens: supplant, establish, be, transfer · To what, where: Federal District Commission, 1927, voluntary transfer, municipal planning authorities
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ottawa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (structure), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Commission | det |
| 2 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Capital | amod |
| 3 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Commission | compound |
| 4 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 structure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Commission | case |
| 6 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 supplanted | nsubj |
| 7 | supplanted | supplant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Commission | det |
| 9 | Federal | Federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Commission | amod |
| 10 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Commission | compound |
| 11 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 supplanted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 established | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 established | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 established | aux:pass |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Commission | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1927 | case |
| 17 | 1927 | 1927 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 established | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 commitment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 commitment | det |
| 20 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 year | nummod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 16 | punct |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 funding | compound |
| 23 | funding | funding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commitment | compound |
| 24 | commitment | commitment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obl |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 reliant | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reliant | cop |
| 27 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 established | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 transfer | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 transfer | det |
| 30 | voluntary | voluntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 transfer | amod |
| 31 | transfer | transfer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reliant | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 authorities | case |
| 33 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 authorities | amod |
| 34 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 authorities | compound |
| 35 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 transfer | nmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 municipalities | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 district | det |
| 38 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 municipalities | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 district | case |
| 40 | municipalities | municipality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 authorities | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 supplanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supplant | past | the Capital Commission's structure | the Federal District Commission | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme commission=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | past · passive | the Federal District Commission | 1927 | with a funding commitment | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with commitment=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities | reliant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | transfer | municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities | nom transfer «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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