--- title: In The Lion King, Simba is a young lion who will become king; simba… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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 with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The lion: why people call it «king of…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/) / 13 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:13 # text = In The Lion King, Simba is a young lion who will become king; simba means lion in Swahili, a language of East Africa. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Simba Simba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 simba simba NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Swahili Swahili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/12/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/)