Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 149
From Wikipedia, «Bandar Seri Begawan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Water taxis are the most common means of negotiating the waterways of Kampong Ayer.
Who acts: Water taxis, common · What happens: be, mean, negotiate · To what, where: waterways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bandar Seri Begawan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water taxis, common), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taxis | compound |
| 2 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 common | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 common | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 common | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 common | advmod |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 negotiating | mark |
| 9 | negotiating | negotiate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waterways | det |
| 11 | waterways | waterway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 negotiating | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kampong | case |
| 13 | Kampong | Kampong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 waterways | nmod |
| 14 | Ayer | Ayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kampong | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Water taxis | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the common | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | negotiate | gerund | the waterways of Kampong | tree rules |
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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