Windhoek, sentence 31
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.
The German colonial era ceased after the end of World War I; but South West Africa, and with it Windhoek, had already fallen in 1915.
What happens: cease, fall · To what, where: German colonial era, 1915, South West Africa
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 era | det |
| 2 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 era | amod |
| 3 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 era | amod |
| 4 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Africa | nsubj |
| 5 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 era | acl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ceased | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 War | case |
| 10 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 War | compound |
| 11 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 War | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Africa | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Africa | cc |
| 15 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Africa | compound |
| 16 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Africa | compound |
| 17 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fallen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fallen | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Windhoek | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Windhoek | nsubj |
| 22 | Windhoek | Windhoek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fallen | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Windhoek | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fallen | aux |
| 25 | already | already | ADV | _ | 26 fallen | advmod |
| 26 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 Africa | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1915 | case |
| 28 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 fallen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Africa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | the German colonial era not said here | after the end of World War I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | 1915 | with Windhoek era | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1915=Location |
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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