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title: Failure to register a child may make it difficult to enroll the chil… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: Failure to register a child may make it difficult to enroll the child in school. Who acts: Failure, child. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 331

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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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Failure to register a child may make it difficult to enroll the child in school.

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**Who acts:** Failure, child · **What happens:** register, make, enroll · **To what, where:** child, school

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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 (Failure, child), 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:331
# text = Failure to register a child may make it difficult to enroll the child in school.
1	Failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	register	register	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enroll	enroll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | to-infinitive | Failure *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | may | Failure | child |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **enroll** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the child |  |  |  | in school *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent child=Theme in school=Goal |

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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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