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title: In 1954, survey and exploration work were undertaken by the Brunei S… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1954, survey and exploration work were undertaken by the Brunei Shell Petroleum on both offshore and onshore fields. Who acts: Shell Petroleum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 207

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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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In 1954, survey and exploration work were undertaken by the Brunei Shell Petroleum on both offshore and onshore fields.

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**Who acts:** Shell Petroleum · **What happens:** undertake · **To what, where:** survey, 1954

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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 (Shell Petroleum), 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:207
# text = In 1954, survey and exploration work were undertaken by the Brunei Shell Petroleum on both offshore and onshore fields.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1954	1954	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	exploration	exploration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Shell	Shell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Petroleum	Petroleum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
17	offshore	offshore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	onshore	onshore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · passive | the Shell Petroleum | survey and exploration work |  | 1954 |  | on offshore and fields | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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