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title: In March 1578, a fresh Spanish fleet had arrived from Mexico and set… — Brunei · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 1578, a fresh Spanish fleet had arrived from Mexico and settled at the Philippines. Who acts: fresh Spanish fleet. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Brunei» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brunei, sentence 73

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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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In March 1578, a fresh Spanish fleet had arrived from Mexico and settled at the Philippines.

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**Who acts:** fresh Spanish fleet · **What happens:** arrive, settle · **To what, where:** Mexico, Philippines

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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 (fresh Spanish fleet), 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:73
# text = In March 1578, a fresh Spanish fleet had arrived from Mexico and settled at the Philippines.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	1578	1578	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | a fresh Spanish fleet |  |  | Mexico | march |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mexico=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **settle** | past | a fresh Spanish fleet *not said here* |  |  | the Philippines |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at philippines=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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