Ottawa, sentence 209
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.
Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations.
Who acts: more craggy Precambrian igneous formations · What happens: situate, surround · To what, where: Ottawa, lowland
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 (more craggy Precambrian igneous formations), 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 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 situated | aux:pass |
| 3 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lowland | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lowland | det |
| 6 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 situated | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 situated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 carbonate | case |
| 10 | Paleozoic | paleozoic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carbonate | amod |
| 11 | carbonate | carbonate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shale | cc |
| 13 | shale | shale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carbonate | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 surrounded | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 situated | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 formations | case |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 formations | amod |
| 19 | craggy | craggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 formations | amod |
| 20 | Precambrian | Precambrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 formations | compound |
| 21 | igneous | igneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 formations | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 metamorphic | cc |
| 23 | metamorphic | metamorphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 igneous | conj |
| 24 | formations | formation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | present · passive | Ottawa | a lowland | on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in lowland=Destination | |||
| 2 | surround | present · passive | more craggy Precambrian igneous formations | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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