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title: Ottawa's median age of 40.0 is slightly below the provincial (41.6)… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ottawa's median age of 40.0 is slightly below the provincial (41.6) and national (41.6) averages as of 2021. Who acts: median age, 41.6. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 219

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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's median age of 40.0 is slightly below the provincial (41.6) and national (41.6) averages as of 2021.

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**Who acts:** median age, 41.6 · **What happens:** be, average

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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 (median age, 41.6), 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:219
# text = Ottawa's median age of 40.0 is slightly below the provincial (41.6) and national (41.6) averages as of 2021.
1	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	median	median	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	40.0	40.0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	below	below	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	41.6	41.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	41.6	41.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	averages	average	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ottawa's median age of 40.0 |  |  |  |  | 41.6 *obl:unmarked*; provincial, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ottawa's median age of 40.0 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **average** | present | 41.6 |  |  |  |  | as 2021 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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