Ottawa, sentence 170
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 skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions, originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the 92.2 meter (302 ft) Peace Tower at visible from most parts of the city.
What happens: control, build, implement, keep · To what, where: skyline, height restrictions, Peace Tower, visible
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: 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 | 2 skyline | det |
| 2 | skyline | skyline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 controlled | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 controlled | aux:pass |
| 5 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 building | mark |
| 7 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 controlled | advcl |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restrictions | compound |
| 9 | restrictions | restriction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 building | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 implemented | punct |
| 11 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 12 implemented | advmod |
| 12 | implemented | implement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 controlled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 implemented | advcl |
| 15 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tower | nsubj |
| 16 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Parliament | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 meter | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meter | det |
| 19 | 92.2 | 92.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 meter | nummod |
| 20 | meter | meter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Parliament | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 ft | punct |
| 22 | 302 | 302 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 ft | nummod |
| 23 | ft | ft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meter | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 ft | punct |
| 25 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tower | compound |
| 26 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 visible | case |
| 28 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 parts | case |
| 30 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 parts | amod |
| 31 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 visible | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 city | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 city | det |
| 34 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 parts | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | present · perfect · passive | the skyline | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build | gerund | height restrictions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset restriction=Product | |||||
| 3 | implement | participle | originally property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | Peace Tower Parliament and the 92.2 meter | visible from most parts of the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tower=Theme at visible=Location |
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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