Brunei, sentence 46
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.
Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading “Great Java”, which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo.
Who acts: Marco, Great Java, Bruneian · What happens: suggest, attempt, fail, invade, be, control · To what, where: memoirs, Great Java, European name, Borneo
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 (Marco, Great Java, Bruneian), 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 | Marco | Marco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | nsubj |
| 2 | Polo | Polo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marco | flat |
| 3 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memoirs | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 memoirs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | memoirs | memoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suggested | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 Khan | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Khan | det |
| 9 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Khan | amod |
| 10 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 memoirs | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 ruler | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ruler | det |
| 13 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Khan | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Empire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Empire | det |
| 16 | Mongol | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Empire | compound |
| 17 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ruler | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attempted | punct |
| 19 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suggested | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 failed | cc |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 attempted | conj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 failed | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 invading | mark |
| 25 | invading | invade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 failed | advcl |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Java | punct |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Java | amod |
| 28 | Java | Java | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 invading | obj |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Java | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 name | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 name | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 name | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 name | det |
| 34 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 name | amod |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Java | appos |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 controlled | mark |
| 37 | Bruneian | Bruneian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 controlled | nsubj |
| 38 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 name | advcl |
| 39 | Borneo | Borneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 controlled | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | Marco | Marco's memoirs the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | attempt | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fail | past | time | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | invade | gerund | Great Java | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Great Java | the European name | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | control | past | Bruneian | Borneo | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent borneo=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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