--- title: Thousands of English words come from French; after 1066 the Normans… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics description: Thousands of English words come from French; after 1066 the Normans from France ruled England and French became the language of the court. Who acts: Thousands, Normans, French. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thousands, 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:5 # text = Thousands of English words come from French; after 1066 the Normans from France ruled England and French became the language of the court. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1066 1066 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Normans Norman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | Thousands of English words | | | French | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **rule** | past | the Normans from France | England | | | after 1066 | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent england=Result | | 3 | **become** | past | French | the language of the court | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/4/) - next →: [English words that came from French, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/)