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title: They covered him with soft robes, they wrapped his half-frozen feet… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 25

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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.

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

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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 (Smith), 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:pg66819:16:25
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flannels	flannel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chafed	chafe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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