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title: However, it has become a more prominent player by serving as chairma… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: However, it has become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Who acts: policy, prominent player. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 361

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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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However, it has become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

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**Who acts:** policy, prominent player · **What happens:** become, serve · **To what, where:** prominent player, forum

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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 (policy, prominent player), 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:361
# text = However, it has become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chairman	chairman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
17	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	Economic	Economic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Cooperation	Cooperation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	APEC	APEC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	forum	forum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | policy | a prominent player |  |  |  | however *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | a prominent player *not said here* | forum |  |  |  | as chairman; for the 2000 Asia Economic Cooperation | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as chairman=Attribute |

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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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