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title: The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command cent… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command centre for the Canadian Armed Forces. Who acts: Defence Headquarters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 259

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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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The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command centre for the Canadian Armed Forces.

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**Who acts:** Defence Headquarters · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** main command centre

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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 (Defence Headquarters), 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:259
# text = The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command centre for the Canadian Armed Forces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	_
15	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Defence Headquarters in Ottawa | the main command centre |  |  |  | for the Canadian Armed Forces | tree rules |

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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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