--- title: Britain was settled over time by Celtic Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxon… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Britain was settled over time by Celtic Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans, and in modern times by people from all over the world. Who acts: Celtic Britons. 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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 (Celtic Britons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:5 # text = Britain was settled over time by Celtic Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans, and in modern times by people from all over the world. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Britons briton PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Anglo Anglo X AFX _ 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Saxons Saxon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Vikings viking PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Normans Norman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** | past · passive | Celtic Britons and Romans and Anglo Saxons and Vikings and Normans | Britain | | | time | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location | 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:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/4/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)