Ottawa, sentence 32
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.
He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal.
Who acts: state, two distinct neighbourhoods · What happens: lay out, create, name · To what, where: streets, two distinct neighbourhoods, Town west
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 (state, two distinct neighbourhoods), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 laid | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 streets | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 created | cc |
| 11 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 neighbourhoods | nummod |
| 13 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 neighbourhoods | amod |
| 14 | neighbourhoods | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 created | obj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 neighbourhoods | acl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 west | punct |
| 17 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Town | compound |
| 18 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 west | compound |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 west | punct |
| 20 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 named | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 canal | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 canal | det |
| 23 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 west | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Town | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Town | punct |
| 26 | Lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 Town | amod |
| 27 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 canal | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Town | punct |
| 29 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Town | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 canal | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 canal | det |
| 32 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 east | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay out | past | state | the streets of the town | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Result | ||||
| 2 | create | past | state not said here | two distinct neighbourhoods | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbourhood=Result | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | two distinct neighbourhoods not said here | Town west of the canal and Lower Town and east of the canal | vn appoint-29.1 «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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