The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 31

They came by twos and threes—men, women, and children—and each one brought him some gift to cheer him in his illness.

Who acts: neighbor, one · What happens: come, bring, cheer · To what, where: gift, stranger, illness

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 (neighbor, one), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 twos	case
4	twos	two	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threes	cc
6	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 twos	conj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 twos	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 women	punct
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 children	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	conj
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brought	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	nsubj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	obj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 gift	det
21	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cheer	mark
23	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 brought	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cheer	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 illness	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 illness	nmod:poss
27	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cheer	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	neighbor				by twos and threes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by two=Location
2	bring	past	each one	some gift	stranger			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination gift=Theme
3	cheer	to-infinitive	each one not said here	stranger		stranger's illness		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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: «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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 31