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title: It was 0.65 km2 in 1895, but was extended to encompass 20 km2 in 190… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: It was 0.65 km2 in 1895, but was extended to encompass 20 km2 in 1903, and to 52 km2 by 1924. Who acts: Board. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 86

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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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It was 0.65 km2 in 1895, but was extended to encompass 20 km2 in 1903, and to 52 km2 by 1924.

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**Who acts:** Board · **What happens:** be, encompass · **To what, where:** 0.65 km2, 1895, 20 km2, 1903

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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 (Board), 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:86
# text = It was 0.65 km2 in 1895, but was extended to encompass 20 km2 in 1903, and to 52 km2 by 1924.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	0.65	0.65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1895	1895	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	encompass	encompass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
21	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1924	1924	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Board | 0.65 km2 |  | 1895 |  | 52 by 1924 *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | extended *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **encompass** | to-infinitive |  | 20 km2 |  | 1903 |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot km2=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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