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title: The town became a focal point for important institutional and religi… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: The town became a focal point for important institutional and religious transformation following the war. Who acts: town, important institutional transformation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 58

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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 town became a focal point for important institutional and religious transformation following the war.

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**Who acts:** town, important institutional transformation · **What happens:** become, follow · **To what, where:** focal point, war

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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 (town, important institutional transformation), 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:58
# text = The town became a focal point for important institutional and religious transformation following the war.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	focal	focal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	institutional	institutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the town | a focal point for important institutional transformation |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | important institutional transformation *not said here* | the war |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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