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title: To increase the sultan's legitimacy in the face of British scrutiny,… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: To increase the sultan's legitimacy in the face of British scrutiny, this reform sought to standardise religious courts, codify Islamic law, and enhance the management of Islamic services under his direct control. Who acts: reform. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency 
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 60

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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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To increase the sultan's legitimacy in the face of British scrutiny, this reform sought to standardise religious courts, codify Islamic law, and enhance the management of Islamic services under his direct control.

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**Who acts:** reform · **What happens:** increase, seek, standardise, codify, enhance, manage · **To what, where:** legitimacy, face, religious courts, Islamic law, management, Islamic services

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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 (reform), 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:60
# text = To increase the sultan's legitimacy in the face of British scrutiny, this reform sought to standardise religious courts, codify Islamic law, and enhance the management of Islamic services under his direct control.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	legitimacy	legitimacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	scrutiny	scrutiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	standardise	standardise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	codify	codify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	enhance	enhance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	management	management	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | to-infinitive |  | the sultan's legitimacy |  | the face of British scrutiny |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer legitimacy=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | this reform |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **standardise** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this reform *not said here* | religious courts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **codify** | infinitive | this reform *not said here* | Islamic law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enhance** | present |  | the management of Islamic services under reform's direct control |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent management=Patient |
| 6 | **manage** |  |  | Islamic services under reform's direct control |  |  |  |  | nom management «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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