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title: Mean-while a crowd of men and women and children had come into the m… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 78

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:25:78
# text = 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.
1	Mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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