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title: He built a stone church that held 500 people; it was also used as a… — Windhoek · tree and pragmatics
description: He built a stone church that held 500 people; it was also used as a school. Who acts: Jonker, stone church. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Windhoek» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Windhoek, sentence 15

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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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He built a stone church that held 500 people; it was also used as a school.

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**Who acts:** Jonker, stone church · **What happens:** build, hold, use · **To what, where:** stone church, 500 people, church

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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 (Jonker, stone church), 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:15
# text = He built a stone church that held 500 people; it was also used as a school.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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