English words that came from French, sentence 5
Thousands of English words come from French; after 1066 the Normans from France ruled England and French became the language of the court.
Who acts: Thousands, Normans, French · What happens: come, rule, become · To what, where: French, 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 (Thousands, 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 French | case |
| 7 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ruled | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 1066 | case |
| 10 | 1066 | 1066 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ruled | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Normans | det |
| 12 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 ruled | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 France | case |
| 14 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Normans | nmod |
| 15 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ruled | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 18 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ruled | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 language | det |
| 21 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 language | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Thousands of English words | French | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | the Normans from France | England | after 1066 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent england=Result | |||
| 3 | become | past | French | the language of the court | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:5.
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 ×2, 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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