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title: Traditionally, the ByWard Market (in Lower Town), Parliament Hill, C… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Traditionally, the ByWard Market (in Lower Town), Parliament Hill, Chinatown, and the Golden Triangle (in Centretown – Downtown) have been focal points of the cultural scenes in Ottawa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 320

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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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Traditionally, the ByWard Market (in Lower Town), Parliament Hill, Chinatown, and the Golden Triangle (in Centretown – Downtown) have been focal points of the cultural scenes in Ottawa.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** focal points

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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:320
# text = Traditionally, the ByWard Market (in Lower Town), Parliament Hill, Chinatown, and the Golden Triangle (in Centretown – Downtown) have been focal points of the cultural scenes in Ottawa.
1	Traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ByWard	ByWard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Market	Market	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Lower	Lower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Chinatown	Chinatown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Centretown	Centretown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Downtown	Downtown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	focal	focal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect |  | focal points |  |  |  | of the cultural scenes in Ottawa | 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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