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title: Istana Darussalam and Istana Darul Hana are former royal residences… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: Istana Darussalam and Istana Darul Hana are former royal residences of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, while the Istana Nurul Iman palace currently serves as the residence of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Who acts: Istana, Nurul palace. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency 
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Bandar Seri Begawan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_Seri_Begawan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Istana Darussalam and Istana Darul Hana are former royal residences of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, while the Istana Nurul Iman palace currently serves as the residence of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

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**Who acts:** Istana, Nurul palace · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** former royal residences

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bandar Seri Begawan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Istana, Nurul palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bandar_Seri_Begawan:113
# text = Istana Darussalam and Istana Darul Hana are former royal residences of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, while the Istana Nurul Iman palace currently serves as the residence of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1	Istana	Istana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Darussalam	Darussalam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Istana	Istana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Darul	Darul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Hana	Hana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	residences	residence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Saifuddien	Saifuddien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	Istana	Istana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Nurul	Nurul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Iman	Iman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	Hassanal	Hassanal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	Bolkiah	Bolkiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Istana and Istana | former royal residences |  |  |  | of Sultan Omar Ali | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | present | the Nurul palace |  |  |  |  | as the residence of Sultan; currently *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as residence=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bandar Seri Begawan», 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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