Kuala Lumpur, sentence 23
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.
One suggestion is that it was named after Sungai Lumpur ("muddy river"); in the 1820s, a place named Sungei Lumpoor was said to be the most important tin-producing settlement on the Klang River.
What happens: be, name, say, produce · To what, where: One suggestion, 1820s, place, important producing settlement, Klang River · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 suggestion | nummod |
| 2 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 named | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 Sungai | case |
| 9 | Sungai | Sungai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 10 | Lumpur | Lumpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sungai | flat |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 river | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 river | punct |
| 13 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 river | amod |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sungai | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 river | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 river | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 1820s | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1820s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1820s | det |
| 20 | 1820s | 1820 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 named | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 place | acl |
| 25 | Sungei | Sungei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 named | xcomp |
| 26 | Lumpoor | Lumpoor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sungei | flat |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | aux:pass |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 named | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 settlement | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 settlement | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 settlement | det |
| 32 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 33 important | advmod |
| 33 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 settlement | amod |
| 34 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 producing | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 tin | punct |
| 36 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 settlement | amod |
| 37 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | ccomp |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 River | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 River | det |
| 40 | Klang | Klang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 River | compound |
| 41 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 settlement | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | One suggestion | the 1820s | after Sungai | suggestion nsubj:pass; name property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | name | participle | a place not said here | Sungei xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | a place | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | produce | gerund | tin compound | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the important producing settlement | the Klang River | 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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