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title: Immediate measures taken were insufficient to prevent 1,400 further… — Ottawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediate measures taken were insufficient to prevent 1,400 further typhoid cases in 1912, leading to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto until the issue was resolved. Who acts: Immediate measures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ottawa» with its dependency
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# Ottawa, sentence 87

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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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Immediate measures taken were insufficient to prevent 1,400 further typhoid cases in 1912, leading to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto until the issue was resolved.

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**Who acts:** Immediate measures · **What happens:** take, be, prevent, lead, resolve, relocate · **To what, where:** Immediate measures, 1,400 typhoid cases, 1912, issue, capital

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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 (Immediate measures), 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:87
# text = Immediate measures taken were insufficient to prevent 1,400 further typhoid cases in 1912, leading to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto until the issue was resolved.
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	1,400	1,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	further	further	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	typhoid	typhoid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	relocation	relocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  | Immediate measures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Immediate measures |  |  |  |  | insufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | Immediate measures *not said here* | 1,400 typhoid cases |  | 1912 |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer case=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | Immediate measures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to 98 deaths and unsuccessful calls; for temporary relocation of the capital to Toronto | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient |
| 5 | **resolve** | past · passive |  | the issue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **relocate** |  |  | the capital to Toronto |  |  |  |  | nom relocation «act 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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