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title: He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct ne… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal. Who acts: state, two distinct neighbourhoods. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 32

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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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He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal.

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**Who acts:** state, two distinct neighbourhoods · **What happens:** lay out, create, name · **To what, where:** streets, two distinct neighbourhoods, Town west

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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 (state, two distinct neighbourhoods), 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:32
# text = He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | past | state | the streets of the town |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Result |
| 2 | **create** | past | state *not said here* | two distinct neighbourhoods |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbourhood=Result |
| 3 | **name** | participle | two distinct neighbourhoods *not said here* | Town west of the canal and Lower Town and east of the canal |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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