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title: The Japanese invaded Brunei on 16 December 1941, eight days after th… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The Japanese invaded Brunei on 16 December 1941, eight days after their attack on Pearl Harbor on the United States Navy. Who acts: Japanese, Brunei. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 128

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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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The Japanese invaded Brunei on 16 December 1941, eight days after their attack on Pearl Harbor on the United States Navy.

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**Who acts:** Japanese, Brunei · **What happens:** invade, attack · **To what, where:** Brunei, 16, Pearl Harbor

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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: who acts (Japanese, Brunei), 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:128
# text = The Japanese invaded Brunei on 16 December 1941, eight days after their attack on Pearl Harbor on the United States Navy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	Navy	Navy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | the Japanese | Brunei |  | 16  December | after Brunei's attack on Pearl Harbor; day | on the States Navy | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** |  | Brunei |  |  | Pearl Harbor |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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