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title: Brunei's population tripled to 83,877 by 1960 as a result of immigra… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: Brunei's population tripled to 83,877 by 1960 as a result of immigration brought on by oilfield finds in Belait. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 69

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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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Brunei's population tripled to 83,877 by 1960 as a result of immigration brought on by oilfield finds in Belait.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** triple, bring on, find, result · **To what, where:** immigration, Belait

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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 (population), 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:69
# text = Brunei's population tripled to 83,877 by 1960 as a result of immigration brought on by oilfield finds in Belait.
1	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tripled	triple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	83,877	83,877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	oilfield	oilfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Belait	Belait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **triple** | past | Brunei's population |  |  |  |  | to 83,877 by 1960 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bring on** | participle |  | immigration *not said here* |  |  |  | by oilfield | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | present |  |  |  | Belait |  | as a result of immigration | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as result=Attribute |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | immigration |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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