The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 0
In The Lion King the hyenas are cackling, lazy thieves, Rafiki is a wise old mandrill on the savanna, and Zazu is a hornbill who flies about reporting news.
Who acts: hyenas, Rafiki, Zazu, hornbill · What happens: cackle, be, fly, report · To what, where: wise old mandrill, savanna, hornbill, news
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hyenas, Rafiki, Zazu, hornbill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cackling | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hyenas | det |
| 6 | hyenas | hyena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cackling | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cackling | aux |
| 8 | cackling | cackle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thieves | punct |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thieves | amod |
| 11 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hyenas | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mandrill | punct |
| 13 | Rafiki | Rafiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mandrill | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mandrill | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mandrill | det |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mandrill | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mandrill | amod |
| 18 | mandrill | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cackling | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 savanna | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 savanna | det |
| 21 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mandrill | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hornbill | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hornbill | cc |
| 24 | Zazu | Zazu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hornbill | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hornbill | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hornbill | det |
| 27 | hornbill | hornbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mandrill | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 flies | nsubj |
| 29 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hornbill | acl:relcl |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 flies | advmod |
| 31 | reporting | report | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 flies | advcl |
| 32 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reporting | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cackling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cackle | present · progressive | the hyenas | in the Lion King | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Rafiki | a wise old mandrill and a hornbill | the savanna | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Zazu | a hornbill | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | present | a hornbill | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | report | gerund | a hornbill not said here | news | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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