The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 14
Many English words come from Norse, like sky, egg, knife and Thursday, which means Thor's day.
Who acts: Many English words, Thursday · What happens: come, mean · To what, where: Norse
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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 (Many English words, Thursday), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Norse | case |
| 6 | Norse | Norse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sky | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Norse | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 egg | punct |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sky | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knife | punct |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Norse | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Thursday | cc |
| 15 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 knife | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Thursday | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Thor | case |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | 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 | come | present | Many English words | Norse and sky and egg and knife and Thursday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from norse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Thursday | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:14.
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 ×2. 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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