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title: Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while relatively inactive, the city does occasionally experience earthquakes. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 214

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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 located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while relatively inactive, the city does occasionally experience earthquakes.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** locate, experience · **To what, where:** Ottawa, earthquakes

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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 (city), 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:214
# text = Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while relatively inactive, the city does occasionally experience earthquakes.
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	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Seismic	seismic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Zone	Zone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	inactive	inactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	experience	experience	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	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 | **locate** | present · passive |  | Ottawa |  |  |  | within the Quebec Seismic Zone | tree rules |
| 2 | **experience** | present · do-support | the city | earthquakes |  |  |  | occasionally *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earthquake=Stimulus |

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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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