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title: The Brunei national football team joined FIFA in 1969, but has not h… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brunei national football team joined FIFA in 1969, but has not had much success. Who acts: national football team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 434

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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 national football team joined FIFA in 1969, but has not had much success.

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**Who acts:** national football team · **What happens:** join, not have · **To what, where:** FIFA, 1969, much success, national football team

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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 (national football team), 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:434
# text = The Brunei national football team joined FIFA in 1969, but has not had much success.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle | the national football team  Brunei *not said here* | FIFA |  | 1969 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifa=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · perfect |  | much success |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient |

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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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