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title: The first major international sporting event to be hosted in Brunei… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: The first major international sporting event to be hosted in Brunei was the 1999 Southeast Asian Games. Who acts: Brunei, first major international sporting event. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 441

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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 first major international sporting event to be hosted in Brunei was the 1999 Southeast Asian Games.

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**Who acts:** Brunei, first major international sporting event · **What happens:** sport, host, be · **To what, where:** 1999 Southeast Asian Games

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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 (Brunei, first major international sporting event), 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:441
# text = The first major international sporting event to be hosted in Brunei was the 1999 Southeast Asian Games.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
3	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | to-infinitive · passive | Brunei |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the first major international sporting event | the 1999 Southeast Asian Games |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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