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title: East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river lays much of t… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river lays much of the original footprint of Bytown, specifically Lower Town, a large portion of which is now comprised in the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts. Who acts: East. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and
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# Ottawa, sentence 160

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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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East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river lays much of the original footprint of Bytown, specifically Lower Town, a large portion of which is now comprised in the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts.

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**Who acts:** East · **What happens:** lay, comprise · **To what, where:** much, Lowertown West

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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 (East), 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:160
# text = East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river lays much of the original footprint of Bytown, specifically Lower Town, a large portion of which is now comprised in the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts.
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Rideau	Rideau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Rideau	Rideau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	footprint	footprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Bytown	Bytown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	Lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	comprised	comprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Lowertown	Lowertown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	Byward	Byward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | East of the Rideau Canal and West of the Rideau river | much of the original footprint of Bytown |  |  |  | Town *parataxis* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Result |
| 2 | **comprise** | present · passive |  |  |  | the Lowertown West and Byward heritage districts | now | of a large portion | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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