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title: The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions, ori… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions, originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the 92.2 meter (302 ft) Peace Tower at visible from most parts of the city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 170

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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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The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions, originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the 92.2 meter (302 ft) Peace Tower at visible from most parts of the city.

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**What happens:** control, build, implement, keep · **To what, where:** skyline, height restrictions, Peace Tower, visible

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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: 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:170
# text = The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions, originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the 92.2 meter (302 ft) Peace Tower at visible from most parts of the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skyline	skyline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	implemented	implement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	92.2	92.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	meter	meter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	302	302	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	ft	ft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | present · perfect · passive |  | the skyline |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | gerund |  | height restrictions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset restriction=Product |
| 3 | **implement** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | originally *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | Peace Tower  Parliament and the 92.2 meter |  | visible from most parts of the city |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tower=Theme at visible=Location |

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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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