Brunei, sentence 428
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.
This paper began as a weekly community paper and became a daily in 1990 Apart from The Borneo Bulletin, there is also the Media Permata and Pelita Brunei, the local Malay newspapers which are circulated daily.
Who acts: paper, daily Apart · What happens: begin, become, be, circulate · To what, where: Media Permata, local Malay newspapers
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 (paper, daily Apart), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 paper | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 paper | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 paper | det |
| 6 | weekly | weekly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 paper | amod |
| 7 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paper | compound |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Apart | det |
| 12 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Apart | amod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1990 | case |
| 14 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Apart | obl |
| 15 | Apart | Apart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Bulletin | case |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bulletin | det |
| 18 | Borneo | Borneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bulletin | compound |
| 19 | Bulletin | Bulletin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Apart | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Apart | acl:relcl |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 Permata | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Permata | det |
| 25 | Media | Media | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Permata | compound |
| 26 | Permata | Permata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 is | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Pelita | cc |
| 28 | Pelita | Pelita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Permata | conj |
| 29 | Brunei | Brunei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Pelita | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 newspapers | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 newspapers | det |
| 32 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 newspapers | amod |
| 33 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 newspapers | compound |
| 34 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Permata | appos |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 circulated | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 circulated | aux:pass |
| 37 | circulated | circulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 newspapers | acl:relcl |
| 38 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 37 circulated | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | this paper | as a weekly community paper | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | this paper not said here | a daily Apart from the Borneo Bulletin xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | a daily Apart from the Borneo Bulletin not said here | the Media Permata and Pelita | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | circulate | present · passive | the local Malay newspapers | daily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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