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title: In 2024 the Windhoek High Court ruled the ban on homosexual acts bet… — Namibia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2024 the Windhoek High Court ruled the ban on homosexual acts between men to be unconstitutional. Who acts: Windhoek High Court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Namibia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Namibia, sentence 229

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From Wikipedia, [«Namibia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia), 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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In 2024 the Windhoek High Court ruled the ban on homosexual acts between men to be unconstitutional.

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**Who acts:** Windhoek High Court · **What happens:** rule, be · **To what, where:** ban, 2024

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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.

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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:Namibia:229
# text = In 2024 the Windhoek High Court ruled the ban on homosexual acts between men to be unconstitutional.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Windhoek	Windhoek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	High	High	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	homosexual	homosexual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	unconstitutional	unconstitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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, «Namibia», 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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