--- title: The National Capital Commission's structure supplanted the Federal D… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics description: The National Capital Commission's structure supplanted the Federal District Commission, which was established in 1927 with a 16-year funding commitment but was reliant on the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities. Who acts: structure. 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The National Capital Commission's structure supplanted the Federal District Commission, which was established in 1927 with a 16-year funding commitment but was reliant on the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities. **Who acts:** structure · **What happens:** supplant, establish, be, transfer · **To what, where:** Federal District Commission, 1927, voluntary transfer, municipal planning authorities 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 (structure), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Ottawa:109 # text = The National Capital Commission's structure supplanted the Federal District Commission, which was established in 1927 with a 16-year funding commitment but was reliant on the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Capital Capital PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Commission Commission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 structure structure NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 supplanted supplant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Federal Federal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 District District PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Commission Commission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1927 1927 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 funding funding NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 commitment commitment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 reliant reliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 voluntary voluntary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 transfer transfer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 municipal municipal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 planning planning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 district district NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 municipalities municipality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **supplant** | past | the Capital Commission's structure | the Federal District Commission | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme commission=Co-Theme | | 2 | **establish** | past · passive | | the Federal District Commission | | 1927 | | with a funding commitment | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with commitment=Source | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | the voluntary transfer of municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities | | reliant *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **transfer** | | | municipal planning authorities from the district's municipalities | | | | | nom transfer «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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ottawa», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/110/) - ↑ back to [Ottawa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/)