Kuala Lumpur, sentence 178

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.

There has been a growing emphasis on expanding the economic scope of the city in other service activities, such as research and development, which support the rest of the economy of Malaysia.

Who acts: growing emphasis, research · What happens: be, grow, expand, support · To what, where: economic scope, rest

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 (growing emphasis, research), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 been	expl
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 been	aux
3	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 emphasis	det
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 emphasis	amod
6	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 been	nsubj
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 expanding	mark
8	expanding	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 emphasis	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scope	det
10	economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scope	amod
11	scope	scope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expanding	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scope	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 activities	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 activities	amod
17	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 activities	compound
18	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 city	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 research	punct
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	22 research	case
21	as	as	ADP	_	20 such	fixed
22	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 city	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 development	cc
24	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 research	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 support	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 support	nsubj
27	support	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 research	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 support	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 economy	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 economy	det
32	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Malaysia	case
34	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 economy	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 been	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present · perfect	a growing emphasis		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	expand	gerund	a growing emphasis not said here	the economic scope of the city in other service activities and research and development		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scope=Patient
4	support	present	research and development	the rest of the economy of Malaysia		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus

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, «Kuala Lumpur», 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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Kuala Lumpur, sentence 178