What are 'head words' and 'lexical head' in parse trees?

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In the Jurafsky and Martin's Speech and Language Processing NLP textbook, a head tag in parse trees are mentioned that in lexicalized grammar, non-terminal in the tree is annotated with its lexical head.

I don't actually get what lexical heads are.

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In the image attached, the word inside the parenthesis is the head word. What exactly are these and how do we determine them?

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