Where English came from, sentence 11

The Normans did not ban English; it lived on and took in thousands of French words, becoming Middle English, spoken from about 1100 to 1500.

Who acts: Normans, house · What happens: not ban, live on, take, become, speak · To what, where: English, thousands, Middle English, 1100 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Where English came from» of the language 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 (Normans, house), 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	2 Normans	det
2	Normans	Norman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 ban	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ban	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ban	advmod
5	ban	ban	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ban	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ban	parataxis
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 thousands	case
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 words	case
16	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 becoming	punct
19	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 took	advcl
20	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 English	compound
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 becoming	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 English	acl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 1100	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 1100	advmod
26	1100	1100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 spoken	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 1500	case
28	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 1100	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ban	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not ban	past · do-support	the Normans	English		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer english=Theme
2	live on	past	house			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	house not said here		thousands of French words	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in thousand=Location
4	become	gerund	house not said here			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	speak speech: other	participle		Middle English not said here	1100 to 1500	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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