Ottawa, sentence 98
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.
This expansion was reflected in the erection of new buildings, both temporary and permanent, to accommodate the new workers.
What happens: reflect, accommodate, erect · To what, where: expansion, erection, new workers, new buildings
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 expansion | det |
| 2 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reflected | aux:pass |
| 4 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 erection | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 erection | det |
| 7 | erection | erection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reflected | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 buildings | case |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 buildings | amod |
| 10 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 erection | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 temporary | punct |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 13 temporary | cc:preconj |
| 13 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reflected | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 permanent | cc |
| 15 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 temporary | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accommodate | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 accommodate | mark |
| 18 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reflected | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 workers | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 workers | amod |
| 21 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accommodate | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past · passive | this expansion | the erection of new buildings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accommodate | to-infinitive | the new workers | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient | |||||
| 3 | erect | new buildings | nom erection «state 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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