The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 9

In many towns frightened people falsely blamed Jewish communities for the plague and attacked them, a sad example of how fear can make people cruel.

Who acts: frightened people, fear · What happens: frighten, blame, attack, make · To what, where: Jewish communities, many towns, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history 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 (frightened people, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 towns	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towns	amod
3	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blamed	obl
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blamed	nsubj
6	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	7 blamed	advmod
7	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 communities	amod
9	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blamed	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 plague	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plague	det
12	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blamed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 attacked	cc
14	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blamed	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 attacked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 example	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 example	det
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 example	amod
19	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attacked	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 make	mark
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 make	advmod
22	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 example	acl
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
26	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 blamed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	blame	past	frightened people	Jewish communities	many towns	for the plague; falsely property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent community=Theme for plague=Attribute
3	attack	past	frightened people not said here	people		a sad example obl	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	make	can	fear	people		cruel property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

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, 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:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:9.

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): 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.

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