The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 25

They covered him with soft robes, they wrapped his half-frozen feet in warm flannels and chafed his icy hands between their own cheer-giving palms.

Who acts: Smith · What happens: cover, wrap, freeze, chafe, give · To what, where: stranger, frozen feet, warm flannels, icy hands

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 robes	case
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 robes	amod
6	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrapped	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrapped	nsubj
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 frozen	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 feet	amod
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrapped	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 flannels	case
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flannels	amod
17	flannels	flannel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrapped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chafed	cc
19	chafed	chafe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrapped	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
21	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hands	amod
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chafed	obj
23	between	between	ADP	_	29 palms	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 palms	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 palms	amod
26	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 giving	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 cheer	punct
28	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 palms	amod
29	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chafed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Smith		stranger		with soft robes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with robe=Theme
2	wrap	past	Smith	stranger's frozen feet		warm flannels		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in flannel=Destination
3	freeze	participle					half compound	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	chafe	past	Smith not said here	stranger's icy hands			between Smith's own giving palms	vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Patient
5	give	gerund					cheer compound	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 25