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title: The funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature's role in d… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: The funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature's role in determining the seat of government. Who acts: funding impasse, role. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ottawa, sentence 57

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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 funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature's role in determining the seat of government.

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**Who acts:** funding impasse, role · **What happens:** lead, determine, end · **To what, where:** seat, role

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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 (funding impasse, role), 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:57
# text = The funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature's role in determining the seat of government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	funding	funding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	impasse	impasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	determining	determine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the funding impasse |  |  |  |  | to the ending of the legislature's role | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ending=Patient |
| 2 | **determine** | gerund | the legislature's role *not said here* | the seat of government |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Topic |
| 3 | **end** |  |  | the legislature's role |  |  |  |  | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=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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