Brunei, sentence 342
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 Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, also issued a statement saying that the country would continue to "strengthen and improve" its legal system in line with international norms and best practices.
Who acts: Sultan, statement, country · What happens: issue, say, continue, strengthen, improve · To what, where: statement, legal system, line · 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 (Sultan, statement, country), 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 | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 issued | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Brunei | case |
| 4 | Brunei | Brunei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sultan | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hassanal | punct |
| 6 | Hassanal | Hassanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sultan | conj |
| 7 | Bolkiah | Bolkiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hassanal | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sultan | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 issued | advmod |
| 10 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 statement | det |
| 12 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 issued | obj |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 statement | acl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 continue | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continue | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 continue | aux |
| 18 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 strengthen | mark |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 strengthen | punct |
| 21 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 continue | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 improve | cc |
| 23 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strengthen | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 system | punct |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 system | nmod:poss |
| 26 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 system | amod |
| 27 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 improve | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 line | case |
| 29 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 system | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 norms | case |
| 31 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 norms | amod |
| 32 | norms | norm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 improve | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 practices | cc |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 practices | amod |
| 35 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 norms | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | the Sultan of Brunei and Hassanal | a statement | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location statement=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a statement not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | continue | would | the country | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | strengthen in a quote | to-infinitive | the country not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | improve in a quote | infinitive | the country not said here | country's legal system | line | with international norms and best practices | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent system=Patient with norm=Instrument |
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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