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title: The MRT system was planned with a "wheel and spoke" concept, complem… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: The MRT system was planned with a "wheel and spoke" concept, complementing the existing rail lines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 378

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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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The MRT system was planned with a "wheel and spoke" concept, complementing the existing rail lines.

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**What happens:** plan, speak, complement, exist · **To what, where:** MRT system, concept, existing rail lines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:378
# text = The MRT system was planned with a "wheel and spoke" concept, complementing the existing rail lines.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	MRT	MRT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	complementing	complement	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past · passive |  | the MRT system |  |  |  | with a wheel | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past |  | concept |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **complement** | gerund |  | the existing rail lines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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