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title: Ottawa is ranked the best city in North America for quality of life… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ottawa is ranked the best city in North America for quality of life by Numbeo, but falls short of other Canadian cities in other rankings such as Vancouver and Toronto in Mercer's rankings. Who acts: Numbeo, Mercer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 255

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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 ranked the best city in North America for quality of life by Numbeo, but falls short of other Canadian cities in other rankings such as Vancouver and Toronto in Mercer's rankings.

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**Who acts:** Numbeo, Mercer · **What happens:** rank, fall · **To what, where:** Ottawa, North America

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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 (Numbeo, Mercer), 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:255
# text = Ottawa is ranked the best city in North America for quality of life by Numbeo, but falls short of other Canadian cities in other rankings such as Vancouver and Toronto in Mercer's rankings.
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	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Numbeo	Numbeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rankings	ranking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Mercer	Mercer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	rankings	ranking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present · passive | Numbeo | Ottawa |  | North America |  | for quality of life; the best city *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | Numbeo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rank** |  | Mercer |  |  |  |  |  | nom ranking «state transitive»: poss=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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