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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 108

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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 riots caused the deaths of 196 people, according to official figures, and led to major changes in the country's economic policy to promote and prioritise Malay economic development over that of other ethnicities.

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**Who acts:** riots, 196 people · **What happens:** cause, accord, lead, promote, prioritise, die · **To what, where:** deaths, major changes, economic policy, Malay economic development, that

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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 (riots, 196 people), 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:108
# text = The riots caused the deaths of 196 people, according to official figures, and led to major changes in the country's economic policy to promote and prioritise Malay economic development over that of other ethnicities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	196	196	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	promote	promote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	prioritise	prioritise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	ethnicities	ethnicity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the riots | the deaths of 196 people accord official figures |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the riots *not said here* | major changes |  | the country's economic policy |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent change=Theme in policy=Destination |
| 4 | **promote** | to-infinitive | the riots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prioritise** | infinitive | the riots *not said here* | Malay economic development |  | that of other ethnicities |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** |  | 196 people accord official figures |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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