Ottawa, sentence 298
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.
Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college.
Who acts: needs · What happens: found, meet, return, become · To what, where: Carleton University, 1942, needs, World War, first private non-denominational college
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 (needs), 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 | Carleton | Carleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 University | compound |
| 2 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 founded | aux:pass |
| 4 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1942 | case |
| 6 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 founded | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 founded | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 needs | det |
| 10 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meet | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 returning | mark |
| 12 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 needs | acl |
| 13 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 War | compound |
| 14 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 returning | obj |
| 15 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 16 veterans | nummod |
| 16 | veterans | veteran | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 returning | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 18 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 became | advmod |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 founded | conj |
| 20 | Ontario | Ontario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 college | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ontario | case |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 college | amod |
| 23 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 college | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 private | punct |
| 25 | non-denominational | non-denominational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 college | amod |
| 26 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | Carleton University | 1942 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the needs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | gerund | the needs not said here | World War | II veterans obj | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent war=Theme veteran=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | become | past | Ontario's first private non-denominational college | late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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