Ottawa, sentence 219
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's median age of 40.0 is slightly below the provincial (41.6) and national (41.6) averages as of 2021.
Who acts: median age, 41.6 · What happens: be, average
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 (median age, 41.6), 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 | 4 age | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ottawa | case |
| 3 | median | median | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 age | amod |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provincial | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 40.0 | case |
| 6 | 40.0 | 40.0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 age | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 provincial | cop |
| 8 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 11 provincial | advmod |
| 9 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 provincial | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 provincial | det |
| 11 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 41.6 | punct |
| 13 | 41.6 | 41.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 provincial | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 41.6 | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 national | cc |
| 16 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 provincial | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 41.6 | punct |
| 18 | 41.6 | 41.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 20 averages | nsubj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 41.6 | punct |
| 20 | averages | average | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 provincial | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 2021 | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 averages | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 provincial | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ottawa's median age of 40.0 | 41.6 obl:unmarked; provincial, slightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ottawa's median age of 40.0 not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | average | present | 41.6 | as 2021 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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