Ottawa, sentence 18
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.
These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging, hunting and fishing, but also trade and travel.
Who acts: findings · What happens: suggest, engage · To what, where: Algonquin people, foraging · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (findings), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 findings | det |
| 2 | findings | finding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suggest | nsubj |
| 3 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 engaged | mark |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 6 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 people | compound |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 engaged | aux:pass |
| 9 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suggest | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 foraging | case |
| 11 | foraging | foraging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 engaged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hunting | punct |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foraging | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fishing | cc |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foraging | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trade | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 trade | cc |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 trade | advmod |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggest | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 travel | cc |
| 21 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trade | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | this findings | trade and travel parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | this Algonquin people | in foraging and hunting and fishing goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in foraging=Goal |
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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