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title: All this and more did these kind people do for the returning hero—ga… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All this and more did these kind people do for the returning hero—gave him rest and quiet, asking no questions, saying nothing, suffering no one to disturb him. Who acts: kind people. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 28

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All this and more did these kind people do for the returning hero—gave him rest and quiet, asking no questions, saying nothing, suffering no one to disturb him.

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**Who acts:** kind people · **What happens:** do, return, give, rest, ask, say · **To what, where:** stranger, questions, nothing, one, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (kind people), 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:pg66819:16:28
# text = All this and more did these kind people do for the returning hero—gave him rest and quiet, asking no questions, saying nothing, suffering no one to disturb him.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | this kind people |  |  |  |  | for the returning hero | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | this kind people *not said here* |  | stranger |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rest** | infinitive | this kind people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | this kind people *not said here* | no questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | this kind people *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 8 | **suffer** | gerund | this kind people *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 9 | **disturb** | to-infinitive | this kind people *not said here* | stranger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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:** «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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