---
title: Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contain… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouth of the Rideau River and a terminus of the Rideau Canal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/205/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Ottawa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/) / 205

# Ottawa, sentence 205

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouth of the Rideau River and a terminus of the Rideau Canal.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** situate, contain · **To what, where:** Ottawa, south bank, mouth

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:205
# text = Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouth of the Rideau River and a terminus of the Rideau Canal.
1	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Rideau	Rideau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	terminus	terminus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Rideau	Rideau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | present · passive |  | Ottawa |  | the south bank of the Ottawa River |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bank=Destination |
| 2 | **contain** | present |  | the mouth of the Rideau River and a terminus of the Rideau Canal |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mouth=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/204/)
- next →: [sentence 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/206/)
- ↑ back to [Ottawa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ottawa/)