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title: In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land clai… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario regarding the unceded status of the land on which Ottawa is situated. Who acts: provincial governments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Ottawa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa), 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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In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario regarding the unceded status of the land on which Ottawa is situated.

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**Who acts:** provincial governments · **What happens:** respond, submit, regard, situate · **To what, where:** 1991, land claim, Ottawa, land

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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 (provincial governments), 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:Ottawa:120
# text = In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario regarding the unceded status of the land on which Ottawa is situated.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Algonquins	Algonquin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	unceded	unceded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | provincial governments |  |  | 1991 |  | to a land claim | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to claim=Theme |
| 2 | **submit** | participle |  | a land claim *not said here* |  |  |  | regard the unceded status of the land; the Algonquins of Ontario *obl:agent* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **situate** | present · passive |  | Ottawa |  | the land |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |

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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, «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.

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