Ottawa, sentence 96
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.
During the Second World War, the City of Ottawa increased temporary housing in the city for men in the military and their families, with the pavilion at Lansdowne Park being transformed into a barracks, as it had been during the First World War.
Who acts: City, housing · What happens: increase, transform, be · To what, where: temporary housing, city, pavilion, Lansdowne Park
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 (City, housing), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 War | amod |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 increased | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 War | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 City | det |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 increased | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ottawa | case |
| 10 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 City | nmod |
| 11 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 housing | amod |
| 13 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increased | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increased | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 city | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 military | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 military | det |
| 21 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 families | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 families | nmod:poss |
| 24 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pavilion | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 pavilion | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pavilion | det |
| 28 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increased | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Park | case |
| 30 | Lansdowne | Lansdowne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Park | compound |
| 31 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 transformed | obl |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 transformed | aux:pass |
| 33 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pavilion | acl:relcl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 barracks | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 barracks | det |
| 36 | barracks | barrack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 transformed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 War | punct |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 War | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 War | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 War | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 War | cop |
| 42 | during | during | ADP | _ | 46 War | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 War | det |
| 44 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 War | amod |
| 45 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 War | compound |
| 46 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 transformed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the City of Ottawa | temporary housing | the city for men in the military and men's families | during the Second World War | with the pavilion | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer housing=Patient | |
| 2 | transform | gerund · passive | the pavilion not said here | Lansdowne Park | into a barracks result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into barrack=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | housing | as the First World War | tree rules |
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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