Brunei, sentence 207
From Wikipedia, «Brunei», 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.
In 1954, survey and exploration work were undertaken by the Brunei Shell Petroleum on both offshore and onshore fields.
Who acts: Shell Petroleum · What happens: undertake · To what, where: survey, 1954
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brunei». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shell Petroleum), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1954 | case |
| 2 | 1954 | 1954 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 undertaken | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 survey | punct |
| 4 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 undertaken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 work | cc |
| 6 | exploration | exploration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | compound |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 survey | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 undertaken | aux:pass |
| 9 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Petroleum | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Petroleum | det |
| 12 | Brunei | Brunei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Shell | compound |
| 13 | Shell | Shell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Petroleum | compound |
| 14 | Petroleum | Petroleum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 undertaken | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 offshore | case |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 17 offshore | cc:preconj |
| 17 | offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 undertaken | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fields | cc |
| 19 | onshore | onshore | ADV | _ | 20 fields | advmod |
| 20 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 offshore | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 undertaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past · passive | the Shell Petroleum | survey and exploration work | 1954 | on offshore and fields | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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