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title: Since the 1990s, the city has played host to many international spor… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 13

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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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Since the 1990s, the city has played host to many international sporting, political and cultural events, including the 1998 Commonwealth Games, 2001 Southeast Asian Games, 2017 Southeast Asian Games, Formula One, Moto GP and 1997 FIFA World Youth Championships.

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**What happens:** play, sport · **To what, where:** city

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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: 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:13
# text = Since the 1990s, the city has played host to many international sporting, political and cultural events, including the 1998 Commonwealth Games, 2001 Southeast Asian Games, 2017 Southeast Asian Games, Formula One, Moto GP and 1997 FIFA World Youth Championships.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
12	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
13	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	including	including	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Formula	Formula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	Moto	moto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
43	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
44	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Youth	Youth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	Championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect · passive |  | the city |  |  | since the 1990s | to many international events including the 1998 Commonwealth Games  2001 and Southeast Asian Games and 2017 Southeast Asian Games; host *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Theme |
| 2 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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