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title: Theories vary on how the city got its modern name of Windhoek. — Windhoek · tree and pragmatics
description: Theories vary on how the city got its modern name of Windhoek. Who acts: Theories, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Windhoek» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Windhoek, sentence 9

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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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Theories vary on how the city got its modern name of Windhoek.

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**Who acts:** Theories, city · **What happens:** vary, get, name · **To what, where:** modern name, Windhoek

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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 (Theories, city), 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:9
# text = Theories vary on how the city got its modern name of Windhoek.
1	Theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vary	vary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Windhoek	Windhoek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | Theories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | the city | city's modern name of Windhoek |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** |  | city | Windhoek |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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