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title: He donned his coat of mail and drew on his greaves and his shoes of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He donned his coat of mail and drew on his greaves and his shoes of iron and his wonderful gloves which no weapons could pierce. Who acts: hero, weapons. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 95

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He donned his coat of mail and drew on his greaves and his shoes of iron and his wonderful gloves which no weapons could pierce.

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**Who acts:** hero, weapons · **What happens:** don, draw, pierce · **To what, where:** coat, greaves

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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 (hero, weapons), 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:pg66819:24:95
# text = He donned his coat of mail and drew on his greaves and his shoes of iron and his wonderful gloves which no weapons could pierce.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	donned	don	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	greaves	greave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **don** | past | hero | hero's coat of mail |  |  |  |  | vn simple\_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | hero *not said here* |  |  | hero's greaves and hero's shoes of iron and hero's wonderful gloves |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on greave=Destination |
| 3 | **pierce** | could | no weapons | hero's greaves and hero's shoes of iron and hero's wonderful 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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