Ottawa, sentence 120

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.

In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario regarding the unceded status of the land on which Ottawa is situated.

Who acts: provincial governments · What happens: respond, submit, regard, situate · To what, where: 1991, land claim, Ottawa, land

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 (provincial governments), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1991	case
2	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 responded	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1991	punct
4	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 governments	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 federal	cc
6	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 provincial	conj
7	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 responded	nsubj
8	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 claim	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 claim	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claim	compound
12	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 responded	obl
13	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 claim	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Algonquins	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Algonquins	det
16	Algonquins	Algonquin	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 submitted	obl:agent
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ontario	case
18	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Algonquins	nmod
19	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 status	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 status	det
21	unceded	unceded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 status	amod
22	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 submitted	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 status	nmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 situated	obl
28	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 situated	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 situated	aux:pass
30	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 land	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past	provincial governments		1991	to a land claim	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to claim=Theme
2	submit	participle		a land claim not said here		regard the unceded status of the land; the Algonquins of Ontario obl:agent	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	situate	present · passive		Ottawa	the land		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination

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, «Ottawa», 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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Ottawa, sentence 120