Kuala Lumpur, sentence 87
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.
By the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km2, and then to 243 km2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory.
Who acts: Board · What happens: become, expand · To what, where: municipality, 1948, Board
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 (Board), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 municipality | det |
| 7 | municipality | municipality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1948 | case |
| 9 | 1948 | 1948 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 became | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 expanded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 expanded | aux |
| 12 | expanded | expand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 became | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 93 | case |
| 14 | 93 | 93 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 expanded | obl |
| 15 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 93 | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 km2 | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 km2 | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 km2 | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 243 | case |
| 20 | 243 | 243 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 km2 | compound |
| 21 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 became | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1974 | case |
| 23 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 km2 | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Territory | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Territory | det |
| 26 | Federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Territory | amod |
| 27 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Board | a municipality | time | in 1948 result; as a Federal Territory; 243 km2 in 1974 obl | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1948=Result | ||
| 2 | expand | past · perfect · passive | Board | to 93 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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