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title: The first municipal election in Kuala Lumpur was held on 16 February… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: The first municipal election in Kuala Lumpur was held on 16 February 1952. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kuala Lumpur» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 97

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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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The first municipal election in Kuala Lumpur was held on 16 February 1952.

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**What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** first municipal election, 16

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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: 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:97
# text = The first municipal election in Kuala Lumpur was held on 16 February 1952.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the first municipal election in Kuala |  | 16  February  1952 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on 16=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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