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title: Windhoek (/ˈwɪndhʊk/; ˈvəntɦuk; ˈvɪnthʊk) is the capital and largest… — Windhoek · tree and pragmatics
description: Windhoek (/ˈwɪndhʊk/; ˈvəntɦuk; ˈvɪnthʊk) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. Who acts: Windhoek. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Windhoek» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Windhoek, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Windhoek»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windhoek), 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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Windhoek (/ˈwɪndhʊk/; ˈvəntɦuk; ˈvɪnthʊk) is the capital and largest city of Namibia.

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**Who acts:** Windhoek · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital

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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 (Windhoek), 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:Windhoek:1
# text = Windhoek (/ˈwɪndhʊk/; ˈvəntɦuk; ˈvɪnthʊk) is the capital and largest city of Namibia.
1	Windhoek	Windhoek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ˈwɪndhʊk	ˈwɪndhʊk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	/	/	SYM	,	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ˈvəntɦuk	ˈvəntɦuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ˈvɪnthʊk	ˈvɪnthʊk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Namibia	Namibia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Windhoek | the capital and largest city of Namibia |  |  |  | largest city of Namibia *conj* | 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, «Windhoek», 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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