Kuala Lumpur, sentence 257
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.
Kuala Lumpur residents are generally literate in English, with a large proportion adopting it as their first language, especially among younger and certain adult generations.
Who acts: Kuala residents, large proportion · What happens: be, adopt · To what, where: English, proportion
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 (Kuala residents, large proportion), 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 | Kuala | Kuala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 residents | compound |
| 2 | Lumpur | Lumpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kuala | flat |
| 3 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 literate | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 literate | cop |
| 5 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 6 literate | advmod |
| 6 | literate | literate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 English | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 literate | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proportion | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 proportion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 proportion | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proportion | amod |
| 13 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 literate | parataxis |
| 14 | adopting | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 proportion | acl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 adopting | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 language | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 language | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 language | amod |
| 19 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adopting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 younger | punct |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 23 younger | advmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 younger | case |
| 23 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 proportion | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 generations | cc |
| 25 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 generations | amod |
| 26 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 generations | amod |
| 27 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 younger | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 literate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kuala residents | English | a large proportion parataxis; generally, literate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adopt | gerund | a large proportion not said here | proportion | as Residents's first language | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as language=Attribute |
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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