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One suggestion is that it was named after Sungai Lumpur ("muddy river"); in the 1820s, a place named Sungei Lumpoor was said to be the most important tin-producing settlement on the Klang River. **What happens:** be, name, say, produce · **To what, where:** One suggestion, 1820s, place, important producing settlement, Klang River · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **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:23 # text = One suggestion is that it was named after Sungai Lumpur ("muddy river"); in the 1820s, a place named Sungei Lumpoor was said to be the most important tin-producing settlement on the Klang River. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 suggestion suggestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Sungai Sungai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 Lumpur Lumpur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 1820s 1820 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 Sungei Sungei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 26 Lumpoor Lumpoor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 32 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 33 advmod _ _ 33 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 producing produce VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 settlement settlement NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Klang Klang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · passive | | One suggestion | | the 1820s | after Sungai | suggestion *nsubj:pass*; name *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **name** | participle | | a place *not said here* | | | | Sungei *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | a place | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **produce** | gerund | | | | | | tin *compound* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the important producing settlement | | the Klang River | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/24/) - ↑ back to [Kuala Lumpur](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/)