Kuala Lumpur, sentence 297
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.
Established in 1949, it is the oldest university in Malaysia, and one of the oldest in the region.
Who acts: University · What happens: establish, be · To what, where: 1949, oldest university, Malaysia
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 (University), 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 | Established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 university | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1949 | case |
| 3 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Established | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Established | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 university | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 university | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 university | det |
| 8 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 university | amod |
| 9 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Malaysia | case |
| 11 | Malaysia | Malaysia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 university | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 university | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 oldest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oldest | det |
| 17 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 region | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 oldest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 university | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | participle | University not said here | 1949 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | University | the oldest university | Malaysia | one of the oldest in the region conj | 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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