--- title: "Mayday", the radio call for help, comes from French "m'aider", from… — Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin · tree and pragmatics description: "Mayday", the radio call for help, comes from French "m'aider", from "venez m'aider", "come and help me"; it was chosen in the 1920s. Who acts: Mayday. 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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 (Mayday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:14 # text = "Mayday", the radio call for help, comes from French "m'aider", from "venez m'aider", "come and help me"; it was chosen in the 1920s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Mayday mayday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 m'aider m'aider NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 venez venez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 m'aider m'aider NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 1920s 1920s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | Mayday | | | French m'aider | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | cutting | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **choose** | past · passive | | p.m. | | the 1920s | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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