Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 60
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.
To increase the sultan's legitimacy in the face of British scrutiny, this reform sought to standardise religious courts, codify Islamic law, and enhance the management of Islamic services under his direct control.
Who acts: reform · What happens: increase, seek, standardise, codify, enhance, manage · To what, where: legitimacy, face, religious courts, Islamic law, management, Islamic services
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 (reform), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 increase | mark |
| 2 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 enhance | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legitimacy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 sultan | case |
| 6 | legitimacy | legitimacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 increase | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 increase | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 scrutiny | case |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scrutiny | amod |
| 12 | scrutiny | scrutiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 reform | det |
| 15 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 increase | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 standardise | mark |
| 18 | standardise | standardise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sought | xcomp |
| 19 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 courts | amod |
| 20 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 standardise | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 codify | punct |
| 22 | codify | codify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 standardise | conj |
| 23 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 law | amod |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 codify | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 enhance | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 enhance | cc |
| 27 | enhance | enhance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 management | det |
| 29 | management | management | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enhance | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 services | case |
| 31 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 services | amod |
| 32 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 management | nmod |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 control | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 control | nmod:poss |
| 35 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 control | amod |
| 36 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 services | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 enhance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | to-infinitive | the sultan's legitimacy | the face of British scrutiny | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer legitimacy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | this reform | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | standardise not said to happen | to-infinitive | this reform not said here | religious courts | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | codify | infinitive | this reform not said here | Islamic law | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enhance | present | the management of Islamic services under reform's direct control | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent management=Patient | |||||
| 6 | manage | Islamic services under reform's direct control | nom management «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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