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title: Before the draining of the Champlain Sea, the area had high salinity. — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the draining of the Champlain Sea, the area had high salinity. Who acts: area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 212

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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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Before the draining of the Champlain Sea, the area had high salinity.

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**Who acts:** area · **What happens:** drain, have · **To what, where:** high salinity

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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 (area), 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:212
# text = Before the draining of the Champlain Sea, the area had high salinity.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	draining	drain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Champlain	Champlain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	salinity	salinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **have** | past | the area | high salinity |  |  | before the draining Champlain Sea |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salinity=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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