Ottawa, sentence 87
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.
Immediate measures taken were insufficient to prevent 1,400 further typhoid cases in 1912, leading to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto until the issue was resolved.
Who acts: Immediate measures · What happens: take, be, prevent, lead, resolve, relocate · To what, where: Immediate measures, 1,400 typhoid cases, 1912, issue, capital
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 (Immediate measures), 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 | Immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 measures | amod |
| 2 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insufficient | nsubj |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 measures | acl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 insufficient | cop |
| 5 | insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 prevent | mark |
| 7 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 insufficient | xcomp |
| 8 | 1,400 | 1,400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cases | nummod |
| 9 | further | further | ADV | _ | 10 typhoid | advmod |
| 10 | typhoid | typhoid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cases | amod |
| 11 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prevent | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1912 | case |
| 13 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 prevent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leading | punct |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 prevent | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 deaths | case |
| 17 | 98 | 98 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 deaths | nummod |
| 18 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leading | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 calls | cc |
| 20 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 calls | amod |
| 21 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deaths | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 relocation | case |
| 23 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 relocation | amod |
| 24 | relocation | relocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 capital | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 capital | det |
| 27 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 relocation | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Toronto | case |
| 29 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 capital | nmod |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 resolved | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 issue | det |
| 32 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 resolved | aux:pass |
| 34 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 leading | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 insufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | Immediate measures not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Immediate measures | insufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prevent | to-infinitive | Immediate measures not said here | 1,400 typhoid cases | 1912 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer case=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead | gerund | Immediate measures not said here | to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls; for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient | ||||
| 5 | resolve | past · passive | the issue | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | relocate | the capital to Toronto | nom relocation «act transitive»: of=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.
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