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title: Youths under 15 constituted 16.4% of the city's total population in… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Youths under 15 constituted 16.4% of the city's total population in 2021, while those of retirement age (65 years and older) made up 16.9%. Who acts: Youths. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 220

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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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Youths under 15 constituted 16.4% of the city's total population in 2021, while those of retirement age (65 years and older) made up 16.9%.

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**Who acts:** Youths · **What happens:** constitute, make up

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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 (Youths), 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:220
# text = Youths under 15 constituted 16.4% of the city's total population in 2021, while those of retirement age (65 years and older) made up 16.9%.
1	Youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	16.4	16.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl:agent	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	16.9	16.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **constitute** | participle | Youths under 15 |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «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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