Where English came from, sentence 12

Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English in the 1300s; "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote" means "When April with its sweet showers".

Who acts: Chaucer, shoures soote · What happens: write, mean · To what, where: Canterbury Tales, Middle English

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 (Chaucer, shoures soote), 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	Chaucer	chaucer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tales	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tales	det
5	Canterbury	canterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tales	compound
6	Tales	tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tales	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 English	case
9	Middle	Middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 English	amod
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 1300s	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 1300s	det
13	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 wrote	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Whan	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Whan	punct
16	Whan	Whan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 Aprill	nsubj
18	Aprill	Aprill	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Whan	parataxis
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 means	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoures	nmod:poss
21	shoures	shoure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 soote	compound
22	soote	soote	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 soote	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	ccomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 April	punct
26	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 April	advmod
27	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 means	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 showers	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 showers	nmod:poss
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 showers	amod
31	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 April	nmod
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 April	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Chaucer	the Canterbury Tales		Middle English		in the 1300s; Whan obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mean	present	shoures soote				april		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:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:12.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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