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title: Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s. Who acts: Late modern architecture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 280

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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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Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s.

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**Who acts:** Late modern architecture · **What happens:** begin, appear · **To what, where:** late 1990s

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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 (Late modern architecture), 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:280
# text = Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
1	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	postmodern	postmodern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	2000s	2000	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Late modern architecture |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive | Late modern architecture *not said here* |  |  | the late 1990s and early 2000s |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990s=Location |

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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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