--- title: In the 400s and 500s AD, Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled in Britain… — Where English came from · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Angles, language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:6 # text = In the 400s and 500s AD, Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled in Britain; their language became Old English, spoken from about 450 to 1100. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 022-where-english-came-from.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 400s 400 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 500s 500 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Angles angle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Saxons Saxon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 12 Jutes jute PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 450 450 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1100 1100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Where English came from, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/5/) - next →: [Where English came from, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/)