Ottawa, sentence 69

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.

Additionally, by 1854 it also had a modern all-season railway (the Bytown and Prescott Railway) that carried passengers, lumber and supplies 82 km to Prescott on the Saint Lawrence River and beyond.

Who acts: 1854, that · What happens: have, carry, supply · To what, where: modern season railway, passengers, 82 km, Prescott, Saint Lawrence River

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 (1854, that), 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	Additionally	additionally	ADV	_	4 1854	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Additionally	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 1854	case
4	1854	1854	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 had	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 railway	det
9	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 railway	amod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 railway	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
12	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 railway	compound
13	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 Bytown	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bytown	det
16	Bytown	Bytown	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 railway	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Prescott	cc
18	Prescott	Prescott	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Bytown	conj
19	Railway	Railway	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Bytown	flat
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 Bytown	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 railway	parataxis
23	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lumber	punct
25	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passengers	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 supplies	cc
27	supplies	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	conj
28	82	82	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 km	nummod
29	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supplies	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Prescott	case
31	Prescott	Prescott	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 supplies	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 River	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 River	det
34	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 River	compound
35	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 River	compound
36	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 supplies	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beyond	cc
38	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	36 River	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	1854	a modern season railway			location nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railway=Patient
2	carry	past	that	passengers and lumber				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Theme
3	supply	present	that not said here	82 km	Prescott	the Saint Lawrence River		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent km=Theme to prescott=Recipient

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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Ottawa, sentence 69