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title: Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and sh… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations. Who acts: more craggy Precambrian igneous formations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 209

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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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Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations.

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**Who acts:** more craggy Precambrian igneous formations · **What happens:** situate, surround · **To what, where:** Ottawa, lowland

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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 (more craggy Precambrian igneous formations), 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:209
# text = Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations.
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lowland	lowland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Paleozoic	paleozoic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	carbonate	carbonate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shale	shale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
19	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	Precambrian	Precambrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
21	igneous	igneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	formations	formation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | present · passive |  | Ottawa |  | a lowland |  | on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in lowland=Destination |
| 2 | **surround** | present · passive | more craggy Precambrian igneous formations |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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