Brunei, sentence 297
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.
The Brunei government denies this and says that their claim on Limbang was never dropped.
Who acts: Brunei government, Brunei · What happens: deny, say, not drop, claim · To what, where: this, claim, Limbang · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brunei government, Brunei), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 government | det |
| 2 | Brunei | Brunei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | compound |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 denies | nsubj |
| 4 | denies | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 denies | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 denies | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dropped | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 claim | nmod:poss |
| 10 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Limbang | case |
| 12 | Limbang | Limbang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 claim | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dropped | aux:pass |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 dropped | advmod |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 says | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 denies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | present | the Brunei government | this | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Brunei government not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not drop | past · passive | Brunei's claim on Limbang | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | claim | Brunei | Limbang | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Brunei», 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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