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title: The trading network existed for 3,000 years, between 2000 BC to 1000… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The trading network existed for 3,000 years, between 2000 BC to 1000 AD. Who acts: trading network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 39

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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 trading network existed for 3,000 years, between 2000 BC to 1000 AD.

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**Who acts:** trading network · **What happens:** exist · **To what, where:** 2000

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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 (trading network), 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:39
# text = The trading network existed for 3,000 years, between 2000 BC to 1000 AD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
11	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
14	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past | the trading network |  |  | 2000  BC to 1000  AD | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between 2000=Location |

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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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