Namibia, sentence 229
From Wikipedia, «Namibia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 2024 the Windhoek High Court ruled the ban on homosexual acts between men to be unconstitutional.
Who acts: Windhoek High Court · What happens: rule, be · To what, where: ban, 2024
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Namibia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Windhoek High Court), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2024 | case |
| 2 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 ruled | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Court | det |
| 4 | Windhoek | Windhoek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Court | compound |
| 5 | High | High | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Court | compound |
| 6 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ban | det |
| 9 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 acts | case |
| 11 | homosexual | homosexual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 acts | amod |
| 12 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ban | nmod |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 acts | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 unconstitutional | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 unconstitutional | cop |
| 17 | unconstitutional | unconstitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ruled | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the Windhoek High Court | the ban | 2024 | on homosexual acts between men | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the Windhoek High Court not said here | unconstitutional property | tree rules |
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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