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title: Kuala Lumpur residents are generally literate in English, with a lar… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: Kuala Lumpur residents are generally literate in English, with a large proportion adopting it as their first language, especially among younger and certain adult generations. Who acts: Kuala residents, large proportion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 257

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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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Kuala Lumpur residents are generally literate in English, with a large proportion adopting it as their first language, especially among younger and certain adult generations.

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**Who acts:** Kuala residents, large proportion · **What happens:** be, adopt · **To what, where:** English, proportion

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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 (Kuala residents, large proportion), 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:257
# text = Kuala Lumpur residents are generally literate in English, with a large proportion adopting it as their first language, especially among younger and certain adult generations.
1	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	literate	literate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	adopting	adopt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Kuala residents |  |  | English |  | a large proportion *parataxis*; generally, literate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adopt** | gerund | a large proportion *not said here* | proportion |  |  |  | as Residents's first language | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as language=Attribute |

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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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