--- title: By the 2010 census, according to the Department of Statistics and ex… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics description: By the 2010 census, according to the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens, the Malay population in Kuala Lumpur had increased to 44.7% (45.9% Bumiputera), exceeding the Chinese population of 43.2%. Who acts: 2010 census. 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By the 2010 census, according to the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens, the Malay population in Kuala Lumpur had increased to 44.7% (45.9% Bumiputera), exceeding the Chinese population of 43.2%. **Who acts:** 2010 census · **What happens:** accord, exclude, increase, exceed · **To what, where:** Malay population, Chinese population 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 (2010 census), 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:233 # text = By the 2010 census, according to the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens, the Malay population in Kuala Lumpur had increased to 44.7% (45.9% Bumiputera), exceeding the Chinese population of 43.2%. 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 case _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Department Department PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Statistics Statistic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 excluding exclude VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 non-citizens non-citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Malay Malay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Kuala Kuala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 Lumpur Lumpur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 44.7 44.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 45.9 45.9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 Bumiputera Bumiputera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 exceeding exceed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 43.2 43.2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **exclude** | gerund | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **increase** | past · perfect · passive | the 2010 census accord the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens | the Malay population in Kuala | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient subject=Extent to %=Result | | 4 | **exceed** | gerund | the 2010 census accord the Department of Statistics and excluding non-citizens *not said here* | the Chinese population | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Theme | 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 232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/232/) - next →: [sentence 234](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/234/) - ↑ back to [Kuala Lumpur](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kuala_Lumpur/)