--- title: The big wave came after 1066, when the Normans from France ruled Eng… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics description: The big wave came after 1066, when the Normans from France ruled England, and for about three hundred years French was the language of the king's court, the law and the rich. Who acts: big wave, Normans, French. A sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the french course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [English words that came from French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/) / 1 # English words that came from French, sentence 1 The big wave came after 1066, when the Normans from France ruled England, and for about three hundred years French was the language of the king's court, the law and the rich. **Who acts:** big wave, Normans, French · **What happens:** come, rule, be · **To what, where:** England, language This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the french 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 (big wave, Normans, French), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:1 # text = The big wave came after 1066, when the Normans from France ruled England, and for about three hundred years French was the language of the king's court, the law and the rich. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1066 1066 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Normans Norman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 22 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the big wave | | | | after 1066 | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rule** | past | the Normans from France | England | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent england=Result | | 3 | **is a** | past | French | the language | | | year | of the king's court and the law | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [English words that came from French, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/0/) - next →: [English words that came from French, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/)