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title: Demolished atap buildings were replaced with brick and tile building… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: Demolished atap buildings were replaced with brick and tile buildings, and many of the new brick buildings had "five-foot ways" and Chinese carpentry work. Who acts: many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 71

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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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Demolished atap buildings were replaced with brick and tile buildings, and many of the new brick buildings had "five-foot ways" and Chinese carpentry work.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** demolish, replace, have · **To what, where:** Demolished atap buildings, foot ways

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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 (many), 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:71
# text = Demolished atap buildings were replaced with brick and tile buildings, and many of the new brick buildings had "five-foot ways" and Chinese carpentry work.
1	Demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	atap	atap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	carpentry	carpentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demolish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **replace** | past · passive |  | Demolished atap buildings |  |  |  | with brick and tile buildings | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Location with brick=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | many of the new brick buildings | foot ways and Chinese carpentry work |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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