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title: Large technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos, Sho… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Large technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos, Shopify and JDS Uniphase were founded in the city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 266

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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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Large technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos, Shopify and JDS Uniphase were founded in the city.

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**What happens:** found · **To what, where:** Large technology companies, city

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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: 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:266
# text = Large technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos, Shopify and JDS Uniphase were founded in the city.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	Nortel	Nortel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Corel	Corel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Mitel	Mitel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Cognos	Cognos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Shopify	Shopify	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	JDS	JDS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	Uniphase	Uniphase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | Large technology companies such Nortel and Corel and Mitel and Cognos and Shopify and JDS |  | the city |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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