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title: The only Allied troops in the area were the 2nd Battalion of the 15t… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The only Allied troops in the area were the 2nd Battalion of the 15th Punjab Regiment based at Kuching, Sarawak. Who acts: Allied troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 131

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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 only Allied troops in the area were the 2nd Battalion of the 15th Punjab Regiment based at Kuching, Sarawak.

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**Who acts:** Allied troops · **What happens:** ally, be, base · **To what, where:** 2nd Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Kuching

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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 (Allied troops), 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:131
# text = The only Allied troops in the area were the 2nd Battalion of the 15th Punjab Regiment based at Kuching, Sarawak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	2nd	2nd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	Battalion	Battalion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	15th	15th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	compound	_	_
15	Punjab	Punjab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kuching	Kuching	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Sarawak	Sarawak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ally** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Allied troops in the area | the 2nd Battalion |  |  |  | of the 15th Punjab Regiment | tree rules |
| 3 | **base** | participle |  | the 15th Punjab Regiment *not said here* |  | Kuching and Sarawak |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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