Kuala Lumpur, sentence 260
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.
In addition, the Cantonese dialect group forms the majority among the local Chinese population, Hokkien and Mandarin are prominent, as they are also widely spoken among the Chinese communities.
Who acts: Cantonese dialect group, Hokkien · What happens: form, be, speak · To what, where: majority, addition, local Chinese population, Hokkien · 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: who acts (Cantonese dialect group, Hokkien), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 5 | Cantonese | cantonese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 group | amod |
| 6 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 group | compound |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | nsubj |
| 8 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 majority | det |
| 10 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | obj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 population | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 population | det |
| 13 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 population | amod |
| 14 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 population | amod |
| 15 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hokkien | punct |
| 17 | Hokkien | Hokkien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 prominent | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mandarin | cc |
| 19 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hokkien | conj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 prominent | cop |
| 21 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 population | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spoken | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 spoken | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 spoken | aux:pass |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 spoken | advmod |
| 27 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 28 spoken | advmod |
| 28 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forms | parataxis |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 communities | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 communities | det |
| 31 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 communities | amod |
| 32 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spoken | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the Cantonese dialect group | the majority | addition | among the local Chinese population | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location majority=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | Hokkien and Mandarin | the local Chinese population not said here | prominent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Hokkien | among the Chinese communities; widely property | 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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