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title: Lead the blind ones kindly with your hands, bring the lame ones in s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Lead the blind ones kindly with your hands, bring the lame ones in sledges or on your backs, fetch the children, fetch the old and feeble, let not one be slighted or forgotten.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 37

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Lead the blind ones kindly with your hands, bring the lame ones in sledges or on your backs, fetch the children, fetch the old and feeble, let not one be slighted or forgotten.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lead, bring, fetch, let, slight, forget · **To what, where:** blind ones, lame ones, sledges, children, old, one

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:27:37
# text = Lead the blind ones kindly with your hands, bring the lame ones in sledges or on your backs, fetch the children, fetch the old and feeble, let not one be slighted or forgotten.”
1	Lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	slighted	slight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | imperative | you *not said here* | the blind ones |  |  |  | with your hands; kindly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the lame ones |  | sledges or your backs |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | the children |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | present |  | the old |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **slight** | infinitive · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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