Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 78

Mean-while a crowd of men and women and children had come into the market place, eager to learn what cause the judges were about to try.

Who acts: crowd, judges · What happens: come, learn, be, try · To what, where: market place

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, judges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crowd	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 women	cc
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 children	cc
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Mean	ccomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	compound
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eager	punct
19	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 learn	mark
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eager	xcomp
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 learn	obj
23	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 judges	det
25	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 about	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 about	cop
27	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 what	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 try	mark
29	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 about	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	a crowd of men and women and children	the market place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial_Location
2	learn	to-infinitive	a crowd of men and women and children not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present				tree rules
4	is	past	the judges		about property	tree rules
5	try	to-infinitive	the judges not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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