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title: The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, also issued a statement sayi… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, also issued a statement saying that the country would continue to "strengthen and improve" its legal system in line with international norms and best practices. Who acts: Sultan, statement, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree a
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# Brunei, sentence 342

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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 Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, also issued a statement saying that the country would continue to "strengthen and improve" its legal system in line with international norms and best practices.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, statement, country · **What happens:** issue, say, continue, strengthen, improve · **To what, where:** statement, legal system, line · **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 (Sultan, statement, country), 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:342
# text = The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, also issued a statement saying that the country would continue to "strengthen and improve" its legal system in line with international norms and best practices.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Hassanal	Hassanal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	Bolkiah	Bolkiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	norms	norm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | the Sultan of Brunei and Hassanal | a statement |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location statement=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a statement *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **continue** | would | the country |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **strengthen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **improve** *in a quote* | infinitive | the country *not said here* | country's legal system |  | line |  | with international norms and best practices | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent system=Patient with norm=Instrument |

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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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