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title: During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal for… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world's largest skating rink, thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7.8 km transportation path to downtown for ice skaters (from Carleton University to the Senate of Canada building). Who acts: Ottawa section. A s
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# Ottawa, sentence 173

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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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During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world's largest skating rink, thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7.8 km transportation path to downtown for ice skaters (from Carleton University to the Senate of Canada building).

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**Who acts:** Ottawa section · **What happens:** form, skate, provide, section · **To what, where:** largest skating rink, recreational venue, canal

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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 (Ottawa section), 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:173
# text = During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world's largest skating rink, thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7.8 km transportation path to downtown for ice skaters (from Carleton University to the Senate of Canada building).
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	skating	skate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	rink	rink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	recreational	recreational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	venue	venue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	7.8	7.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	downtown	downtown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	skaters	skater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Carleton	Carleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | the Ottawa section of the canal | the world's largest skating rink |  |  | during part of the winter season |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rink=Theme |
| 2 | **skate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **provide** | gerund | the Ottawa section of the canal *not said here* | a recreational venue and a transportation path |  |  |  | to downtown; for ice skaters; thereby *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition venue=Theme for skater=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **section** |  |  | the canal |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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