--- title: Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics description: Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading “Great Java”, which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo. Who acts: Marco, Great Java, Bruneian. 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Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading “Great Java”, which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo. **Who acts:** Marco, Great Java, Bruneian · **What happens:** suggest, attempt, fail, invade, be, control · **To what, where:** memoirs, Great Java, European name, Borneo 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 (Marco, Great Java, Bruneian), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:46 # text = Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading “Great Java”, which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo. 1 Marco Marco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Polo Polo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 memoirs memoir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Khan Khan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Mongol Mongol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 attempted attempt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 invading invade VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Java Java PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 Bruneian Bruneian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 Borneo Borneo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | Marco | | | Marco's memoirs the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **attempt** | past | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fail** | past | | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **invade** | gerund | | Great Java | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | Great Java | the European name | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **control** | past | Bruneian | Borneo | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent borneo=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brunei/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brunei/47/) - ↑ back to [Brunei](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Brunei/)