Kuala Lumpur, sentence 79
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.
A railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Klang, initiated by Swettenham and completed in 1886, increased access and resulted in rapid growth.
Who acts: railway line · What happens: initiate, complete, increase, result · To what, where: railway line, 1886, access, rapid growth
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 (railway line), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 line | det |
| 2 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 line | compound |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 Kuala | case |
| 5 | Kuala | Kuala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 line | nmod |
| 6 | Lumpur | Lumpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kuala | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Klang | cc |
| 8 | Klang | Klang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kuala | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 initiated | punct |
| 10 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 line | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Swettenham | case |
| 12 | Swettenham | Swettenham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 initiated | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 completed | cc |
| 14 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 initiated | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1886 | case |
| 16 | 1886 | 1886 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 completed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 line | punct |
| 18 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increased | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 resulted | cc |
| 21 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 increased | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 growth | case |
| 23 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 growth | amod |
| 24 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resulted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | participle | a railway line between Kuala and Klang not said here | by Swettenham | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | complete | participle | 1886 | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | increase | past | a railway line between Kuala and Klang | access | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer access=Patient | ||||
| 4 | result | participle | a railway line between Kuala and Klang not said here | rapid growth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in growth=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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