Ottawa, sentence 160
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.
East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river lays much of the original footprint of Bytown, specifically Lower Town, a large portion of which is now comprised in the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts.
Who acts: East · What happens: lay, comprise · To what, where: much, Lowertown West
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 (East), 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 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lays | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Canal | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Canal | det |
| 4 | Rideau | Rideau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Canal | compound |
| 5 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 East | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 West | cc |
| 7 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 East | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 10 | Rideau | Rideau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 river | compound |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 West | nmod |
| 12 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lays | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 footprint | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 footprint | det |
| 16 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 footprint | amod |
| 17 | footprint | footprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 much | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bytown | case |
| 19 | Bytown | Bytown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 footprint | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Town | punct |
| 21 | specifically | specifically | ADV | _ | 23 Town | advmod |
| 22 | Lower | low | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 Town | advmod |
| 23 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lays | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 portion | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 portion | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 portion | amod |
| 27 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Town | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 comprised | obl |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 comprised | aux:pass |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 comprised | advmod |
| 32 | comprised | comprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 portion | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 West | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 West | det |
| 35 | Lowertown | Lowertown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 West | compound |
| 36 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 comprised | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 districts | cc |
| 38 | Byward | Byward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 districts | compound |
| 39 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 districts | compound |
| 40 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 West | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river | much of the original footprint of Bytown | Town parataxis | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Result | |||
| 2 | comprise | present · passive | the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts | now | of a large portion | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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