Kuala Lumpur, sentence 134
From Wikipedia, «Kuala Lumpur», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Floods are frequent in Kuala Lumpur after heavy downpours, especially in the city centre, because irrigation structure lags behind the intense development in the city.
Who acts: Floods, irrigation structure · What happens: be, lag · To what, where: Kuala, intense development
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuala Lumpur». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floods, irrigation structure), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frequent | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frequent | cop |
| 3 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Kuala | case |
| 5 | Kuala | Kuala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frequent | obl |
| 6 | Lumpur | Lumpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kuala | flat |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 downpours | case |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 downpours | amod |
| 9 | downpours | downpour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frequent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 centre | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 15 centre | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 centre | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 centre | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 centre | compound |
| 15 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 downpours | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lags | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 lags | mark |
| 18 | irrigation | irrigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 structure | compound |
| 19 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lags | nsubj |
| 20 | lags | lag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frequent | conj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 development | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 development | det |
| 23 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 development | amod |
| 24 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lags | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 development | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Floods | Kuala | after heavy downpours in the city centre | frequent property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | lag | present | irrigation structure | the intense development in the city | tree rules |
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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