Where English came from, sentence 6

In the 400s and 500s AD, Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled in Britain; their language became Old English, spoken from about 450 to 1100.

Who acts: Angles, language · What happens: settle, become, speak · To what, where: 400s, Old English, 450 · 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 (Angles, language), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 400s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 400s	det
3	400s	400	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 settled	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 500s	cc
5	500s	500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 400s	conj
6	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 500s	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Angles	punct
8	Angles	angle	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 settled	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Saxons	punct
10	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Angles	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Jutes	cc
12	Jutes	jute	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Angles	conj
13	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 became	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Britain	case
15	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 settled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 language	nmod:poss
18	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 English	amod
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 English	acl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 450	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 450	advmod
26	450	450	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 spoken	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 1100	case
28	1100	1100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 450	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 settled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	settle	participle	Angles and Saxons and Jutes		the 400s and 500s	in Britain	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 400=Location
2	become	past	Angles's language				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	participle		Old English not said here	450 to 1100		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:6.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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