English words that came from French, sentence 1
The big wave came after 1066, when the Normans from France ruled England, and for about three hundred years French was the language of the king's court, the law and the rich.
Who acts: big wave, Normans, French · What happens: come, rule, be · To what, where: England, language
This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the french 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 (big wave, Normans, French), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wave | amod |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 1066 | case |
| 6 | 1066 | 1066 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruled | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 ruled | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Normans | det |
| 10 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 ruled | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Normans | nmod |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ruled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 language | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 language | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 hundred | advmod |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 language | obl |
| 22 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 language | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 language | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 language | det |
| 25 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 court | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 court | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 language | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 law | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 law | det |
| 33 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 court | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rich | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rich | det |
| 36 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 law | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the big wave | after 1066 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | the Normans from France | England | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent england=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | French | the language | year | of the king's court and the law | tree rules |
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:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:1.
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, 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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