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title: Spain declared war in 1578, planning to attack and capture Kota Batu… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: Spain declared war in 1578, planning to attack and capture Kota Batu, Brunei's capital at the time. Who acts: Spain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 67

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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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Spain declared war in 1578, planning to attack and capture Kota Batu, Brunei's capital at the time.

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**Who acts:** Spain · **What happens:** declare, plan, attack, capture · **To what, where:** war, 1578, Kota

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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 (Spain), 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:67
# text = Spain declared war in 1578, planning to attack and capture Kota Batu, Brunei's capital at the time.
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1578	1578	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	Kota	Kota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Batu	Batu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Brunei	Brunei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Spain | war |  | 1578 |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 2 | **plan** | gerund | Spain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **attack** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Spain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **capture** | infinitive | Spain *not said here* | Kota |  |  | time |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kota=Theme |

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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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