Kuala Lumpur, sentence 233
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.
By the 2010 census, according to the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens, the Malay population in Kuala Lumpur had increased to 44.7% (45.9% Bumiputera), exceeding the Chinese population of 43.2%.
Who acts: 2010 census · What happens: accord, exclude, increase, exceed · To what, where: Malay population, Chinese population
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 (2010 census), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 census | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 census | det |
| 3 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 census | nummod |
| 4 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 increased | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Department | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Department | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Department | det |
| 9 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 census | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Statistics | case |
| 11 | Statistics | Statistic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Department | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 non-citizens | cc |
| 13 | excluding | exclude | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 non-citizens | amod |
| 14 | non-citizens | non-citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Department | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 census | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 population | det |
| 17 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 population | compound |
| 18 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Kuala | case |
| 20 | Kuala | Kuala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 population | nmod |
| 21 | Lumpur | Lumpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kuala | flat |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 increased | aux |
| 23 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 % | case |
| 25 | 44.7 | 44.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 % | nummod |
| 26 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 23 increased | obl |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 % | punct |
| 28 | 45.9 | 45.9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 % | nummod |
| 29 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 26 % | appos |
| 30 | Bumiputera | Bumiputera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 % | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 % | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 exceeding | punct |
| 33 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 increased | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 population | det |
| 35 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 population | amod |
| 36 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exceeding | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 % | case |
| 38 | 43.2 | 43.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 % | nummod |
| 39 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 36 population | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | exclude | gerund | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 3 | increase | past · perfect · passive | the 2010 census accord the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens | the Malay population in Kuala | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient subject=Extent to %=Result | ||||
| 4 | exceed | gerund | the 2010 census accord the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens not said here | the Chinese population | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Theme |
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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