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title: By the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 k… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km2, and then to 243 km2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory. Who acts: Board. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 87

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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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By the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km2, and then to 243 km2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory.

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**Who acts:** Board · **What happens:** become, expand · **To what, where:** municipality, 1948, Board

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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:87
# text = By the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km2, and then to 243 km2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	93	93	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	243	243	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Board | a municipality |  |  | time | in 1948 *result*; as a Federal Territory; 243 km2 in 1974 *obl* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1948=Result |
| 2 | **expand** | past · perfect · passive |  | Board |  |  |  | to 93 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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