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title: Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returni… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college. Who acts: needs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 298

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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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Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college.

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**Who acts:** needs · **What happens:** found, meet, return, become · **To what, where:** Carleton University, 1942, needs, World War, first private non-denominational college

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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 (needs), 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:298
# text = Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college.
1	Carleton	Carleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1942	1942	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	veterans	veteran	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
23	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	non-denominational	non-denominational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	college	college	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | Carleton University |  | 1942 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the needs |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | the needs *not said here* | World War |  |  |  | II veterans *obj* | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent war=Theme veteran=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** | past |  | Ontario's first private non-denominational college |  |  |  | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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