Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 7
After 1066 French became the language of the rulers, and thousands of French words entered English.
Who acts: French, thousands · What happens: become, enter · To what, where: language, English
This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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 (French, thousands), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 1066 | case |
| 2 | 1066 | 1066 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 language | det |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rulers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rulers | det |
| 9 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 language | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 entered | cc |
| 12 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thousands | nmod |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 17 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | 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 | become | past | French | the language of the rulers | after 1066 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past | thousands of French words | English | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme english=Destination |
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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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