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title: These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in f… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging, hunting and fishing, but also trade and travel. Who acts: findings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 18

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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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These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging, hunting and fishing, but also trade and travel.

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**Who acts:** findings · **What happens:** suggest, engage · **To what, where:** Algonquin people, foraging · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (findings), 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:18
# text = These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging, hunting and fishing, but also trade and travel.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	findings	finding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foraging	foraging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | this findings |  |  |  |  | trade and travel *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **engage** | past · passive |  | this Algonquin people |  |  |  | in foraging and hunting and fishing *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in foraging=Goal |

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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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