The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 0
People have called the lion king of the beasts for thousands of years: the big golden male with his mane, the roar that rolls across the plain at dawn, and the pride that lies in the open without bothering to hide.
Who acts: People, roar, pride · What happens: call, roll, lie, bother, hide · To what, where: lion king, plain, open · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 (People, roar, pride), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beasts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beasts | det |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 male | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 male | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 male | amod |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 male | amod |
| 18 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | appos |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mane | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mane | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 male | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roar | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roar | det |
| 24 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 male | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rolls | nsubj |
| 26 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 roar | acl:relcl |
| 27 | across | across | ADP | _ | 29 plain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 plain | det |
| 29 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolls | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 dawn | case |
| 31 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolls | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pride | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pride | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pride | det |
| 35 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 male | conj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 lies | nsubj |
| 37 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 pride | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 open | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 open | det |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lies | obl |
| 41 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 42 bothering | mark |
| 42 | bothering | bother | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 lies | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 hide | mark |
| 44 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 bothering | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · perfect | People | the lion king of the beasts | for thousands of years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent king=Theme for thousand=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | roll | present | the roar | the plain | dawn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lie | present | the pride | the open | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in open=Location | ||||
| 4 | bother | gerund | the pride not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | the pride not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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