Windhoek, sentence 15
From Wikipedia, «Windhoek», 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.
He built a stone church that held 500 people; it was also used as a school.
Who acts: Jonker, stone church · What happens: build, hold, use · To what, where: stone church, 500 people, church
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Windhoek». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jonker, stone church), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 church | compound |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 church | acl:relcl |
| 8 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 built | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 school | det |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Jonker | a stone church | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Product | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | a stone church | 500 people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past · passive | church | as a school | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as school=Attribute |
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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