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title: Kapitan Yap Ah Loy expanded road access, linking tin mines with the… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: Kapitan Yap Ah Loy expanded road access, linking tin mines with the city with the main arterial routes of the present Ampang Road, Pudu Road and Petaling Street. Who acts: Kapitan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 73

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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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Kapitan Yap Ah Loy expanded road access, linking tin mines with the city with the main arterial routes of the present Ampang Road, Pudu Road and Petaling Street.

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**Who acts:** Kapitan · **What happens:** expand, link · **To what, where:** road access, tin mines

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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 (Kapitan), 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:73
# text = Kapitan Yap Ah Loy expanded road access, linking tin mines with the city with the main arterial routes of the present Ampang Road, Pudu Road and Petaling Street.
1	Kapitan	Kapitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Yap	Yap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ah	Ah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	Loy	Loy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	linking	link	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	arterial	arterial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	Ampang	Ampang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Pudu	Pudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Petaling	Petaling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | past | Kapitan | road access |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent access=Patient |
| 2 | **link** | gerund | Kapitan *not said here* | tin mines |  |  |  | with the city; with the main arterial routes  Ampang Road of the present and Pudu Road and Petaling Street | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mine=Patient with city=Co-Patient |

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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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