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title: The traditional Kianggeh Market, believed to be Brunei's oldest mark… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: The traditional Kianggeh Market, believed to be Brunei's oldest market, mainly sells local cuisine, seafood, and fruit. Who acts: traditional Kianggeh Market, oldest market. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 156

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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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The traditional Kianggeh Market, believed to be Brunei's oldest market, mainly sells local cuisine, seafood, and fruit.

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**Who acts:** traditional Kianggeh Market, oldest market · **What happens:** believe, be, sell · **To what, where:** oldest market, local cuisine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (traditional Kianggeh Market, oldest market), 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:156
# text = The traditional Kianggeh Market, believed to be Brunei's oldest market, mainly sells local cuisine, seafood, and fruit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Kianggeh	Kianggeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Market	Market	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	seafood	seafood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the traditional Kianggeh Market |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Brunei's oldest market |  |  |  | Brunei *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | present | Brunei's oldest market *not said here* | local cuisine and seafood |  |  |  | fruit *conj*; mainly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuisine=Theme |

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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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