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title: The so-called 13 May Incident included violent conflicts between mem… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: The so-called 13 May Incident included violent conflicts between members of the Malay and the Chinese communities, the result of Malays' dissatisfaction with their socio-political status. Who acts: May, Malays. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 107

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From Wikipedia, [«Kuala Lumpur»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The so-called 13 May Incident included violent conflicts between members of the Malay and the Chinese communities, the result of Malays' dissatisfaction with their socio-political status.

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**Who acts:** May, Malays · **What happens:** call, include, result, dissatisfy · **To what, where:** 13, dissatisfaction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (May, Malays), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kuala_Lumpur:107
# text = The so-called 13 May Incident included violent conflicts between members of the Malay and the Chinese communities, the result of Malays' dissatisfaction with their socio-political status.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Incident	Incident	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
9	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Malays	malay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	socio-political	socio-political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **include** | past | May | 13 |  |  |  | violent conflicts *obj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent conflict=Theme between member=Location |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | Malays's dissatisfaction with members's socio-political status |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **dissatisfy** |  | Malays |  |  |  |  | with members's socio-political status | nom dissatisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kuala Lumpur», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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