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title: After this he wrought for himself a coat of mail, and gauntlets of i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: After this he wrought for himself a coat of mail, and gauntlets of iron, and strong gloves which no tooth nor sting could pierce. Who acts: tooth. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 80

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After this he wrought for himself a coat of mail, and gauntlets of iron, and strong gloves which no tooth nor sting could pierce.

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**Who acts:** tooth · **What happens:** pierce · **To what, where:** strong gloves

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tooth), 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:pg66819:24:80
# text = After this he wrought for himself a coat of mail, and gauntlets of iron, and strong gloves which no tooth nor sting could pierce.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gauntlets	gauntlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** | could | no tooth nor sting | strong gloves |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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