Kuala Lumpur, sentence 71
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.
Demolished atap buildings were replaced with brick and tile buildings, and many of the new brick buildings had "five-foot ways" and Chinese carpentry work.
Who acts: many · What happens: demolish, replace, have · To what, where: Demolished atap buildings, foot ways
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 (many), 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 | Demolished | demolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 buildings | amod |
| 2 | atap | atap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildings | compound |
| 3 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replaced | aux:pass |
| 5 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 brick | case |
| 7 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replaced | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 buildings | cc |
| 9 | tile | tile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buildings | compound |
| 10 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brick | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 had | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 buildings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buildings | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 buildings | amod |
| 17 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buildings | compound |
| 18 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 many | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replaced | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 ways | punct |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 foot | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 five | punct |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ways | compound |
| 24 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 ways | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 work | cc |
| 27 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 work | amod |
| 28 | carpentry | carpentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 work | compound |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ways | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demolish | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | replace | past · passive | Demolished atap buildings | with brick and tile buildings | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Location with brick=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | many of the new brick buildings | foot ways and Chinese carpentry work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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