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title: The Municipal Board was established in 1921, originally as a Sanitar… — Bandar Seri Begawan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Municipal Board was established in 1921, originally as a Sanitary Board (Lembaga Kebersihan) which was, and is still, responsible for maintaining the cleanliness to the then Brunei Town. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bandar Seri Begawan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bandar Seri Begawan, sentence 82

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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 Municipal Board was established in 1921, originally as a Sanitary Board (Lembaga Kebersihan) which was, and is still, responsible for maintaining the cleanliness to the then Brunei Town.

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**What happens:** establish, be, maintain · **To what, where:** Municipal Board, 1921, cleanliness

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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: 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:82
# text = The Municipal Board was established in 1921, originally as a Sanitary Board (Lembaga Kebersihan) which was, and is still, responsible for maintaining the cleanliness to the then Brunei Town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Board	Board	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1921	1921	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Sanitary	Sanitary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Lembaga	Lembaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Kebersihan	Kebersihan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cleanliness	cleanliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the Municipal Board |  | 1921 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a Sanitary Board; Lembaga *appos*; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | still | responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **maintain** | gerund |  | the cleanliness |  |  |  | to the Brunei Town | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cleanliness=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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