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title: Singly, or by twos and threes, in sledges, on snowshoes, on foot, th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Singly, or by twos and threes, in sledges, on snowshoes, on foot, they returned to their respective haunts and homes. Who acts: visitors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 30

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Singly, or by twos and threes, in sledges, on snowshoes, on foot, they returned to their respective haunts and homes.

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**Who acts:** visitors · **What happens:** return

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitors), 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:pg66819:10:30
# text = Singly, or by twos and threes, in sledges, on snowshoes, on foot, they returned to their respective haunts and homes.
1	Singly	singly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	twos	two	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	snowshoes	snowshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	respective	respective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	haunts	haunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  |  | by twos and threes and sledges and snowshoes and foot; to visitors's respective haunts and homes *result*; singly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to haunt=Result |

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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 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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