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title: Despite efforts to promote public transport, utilisation rates are l… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite efforts to promote public transport, utilisation rates are low, 16 per cent of the population in 2006. Who acts: Despite efforts, utilisation rates. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 353

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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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Despite efforts to promote public transport, utilisation rates are low, 16 per cent of the population in 2006.

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**Who acts:** Despite efforts, utilisation rates · **What happens:** promote, be · **To what, where:** public transport

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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 (Despite efforts, utilisation rates), 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:353
# text = Despite efforts to promote public transport, utilisation rates are low, 16 per cent of the population in 2006.
1	Despite	despite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	promote	promote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	utilisation	utilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promote** | to-infinitive | Despite efforts | public transport |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transport=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | utilisation rates |  |  |  |  | 16 per cent of the population in 2006 *parataxis*; low *property* | 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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