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title: And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing at him, and giving him blows and kicks. Who acts: people, giving. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 8

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And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing at him, and giving him blows and kicks.

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**Who acts:** people, giving · **What happens:** crowd, jeer, scout, point, give, blow · **To what, where:** Umra

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, giving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:5:8
# text = And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing at him, and giving him blows and kicks.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	jeering	jeer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scouting	scout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | round Umra | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination |
| 2 | **jeer** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scout** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **point** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Umra | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | gerund |  |  | Umra |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **blow** | present | giving |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **kick** | present | giving *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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