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title: Petroleum was discovered in 1929 after several fruitless attempts. — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: Petroleum was discovered in 1929 after several fruitless attempts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 114

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From Wikipedia, [«Brunei»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei), 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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Petroleum was discovered in 1929 after several fruitless attempts.

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**What happens:** discover · **To what, where:** Petroleum, 1929

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brunei». 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:Brunei:114
# text = Petroleum was discovered in 1929 after several fruitless attempts.
1	Petroleum	Petroleum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1929	1929	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive |  | Petroleum |  | 1929 | after several fruitless attempts |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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, «Brunei», 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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