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title: The Brunei government denies this and says that their claim on Limba… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brunei government denies this and says that their claim on Limbang was never dropped. Who acts: Brunei government, Brunei. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 297

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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 Brunei government denies this and says that their claim on Limbang was never dropped.

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**Who acts:** Brunei government, Brunei · **What happens:** deny, say, not drop, claim · **To what, where:** this, claim, Limbang · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brunei government, 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:297
# text = The Brunei government denies this and says that their claim on Limbang was never dropped.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	denies	deny	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Limbang	Limbang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | present | the Brunei government | this |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Brunei government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **drop** | past · passive |  | Brunei's claim on Limbang |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** |  | Brunei |  |  | Limbang |  |  | nom claim «communication 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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