--- title: In many towns frightened people falsely blamed Jewish communities fo… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Black Death and the end of the Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/) / 9 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:9 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 falsely falsely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 Jewish Jewish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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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