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title: A railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Klang, initiated by Swettenh… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: A railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Klang, initiated by Swettenham and completed in 1886, increased access and resulted in rapid growth. Who acts: railway line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 79

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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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A railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Klang, initiated by Swettenham and completed in 1886, increased access and resulted in rapid growth.

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**Who acts:** railway line · **What happens:** initiate, complete, increase, result · **To what, where:** railway line, 1886, access, rapid growth

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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 (railway line), 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:79
# text = A railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Klang, initiated by Swettenham and completed in 1886, increased access and resulted in rapid growth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Klang	Klang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Swettenham	Swettenham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1886	1886	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | participle |  | a railway line between Kuala and Klang *not said here* |  |  |  | by Swettenham | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **complete** | participle |  |  |  | 1886 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **increase** | past | a railway line between Kuala and Klang | access |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer access=Patient |
| 4 | **result** | participle | a railway line between Kuala and Klang *not said here* |  |  | rapid growth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in growth=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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