Kuala Lumpur, sentence 280
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.
Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
Who acts: Late modern architecture · What happens: begin, appear · To what, where: late 1990s
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 (Late modern architecture), 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 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 architecture | amod |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 architecture | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 postmodern | cc |
| 4 | postmodern | postmodern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 modern | conj |
| 5 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 appear | mark |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1990s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1990s | det |
| 11 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 1990s | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 late | punct |
| 13 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 appear | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 2000s | cc |
| 15 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 2000s | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 early | punct |
| 17 | 2000s | 2000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 1990s | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Late modern architecture | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | Late modern architecture not said here | the late 1990s and early 2000s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990s=Location |
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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