The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 13
In The Lion King, Simba is a young lion who will become king; simba means lion in Swahili, a language of East Africa.
Who acts: Simba, young lion · What happens: be, become, mean · To what, where: young lion, king, lion, Swahili
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 (Simba, young lion), 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 | 17 means | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 6 | Simba | Simba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lion | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lion | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lion | amod |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | parataxis |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lion | acl:relcl |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 simba | punct |
| 16 | simba | simba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Swahili | case |
| 20 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 language | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 language | det |
| 23 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lion | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 East | case |
| 25 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 language | nmod |
| 26 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 East | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Simba | a young lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | future | a young lion | king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | simba | lion and a language of East | Swahili | in the Lion King | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lion=Theme in king=Attribute |
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:13.
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): 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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