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title: Its capital is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are T… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Its capital is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Who acts: capital, three largest metropolitan areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 6

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Its capital is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

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**Who acts:** capital, three largest metropolitan areas · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Ottawa, Toronto

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital, three largest metropolitan areas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canada:6
# text = Its capital is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | country's capital | Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal |  |  |  | Montreal *conj*; Vancouver *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | country's three largest metropolitan areas | Toronto |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canada», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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