---
title: Then the Graybeard raised his voice and angrily commanded the pain t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Graybeard raised his voice and angrily commanded the pain to depart. Who acts: Graybeard. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/4/134/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Graybeard and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/4/) / 134

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 134

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then the Graybeard raised his voice and angrily commanded the pain to depart.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Graybeard · **What happens:** raise, command, depart · **To what, where:** voice, pain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graybeard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:4:134
# text = Then the Graybeard raised his voice and angrily commanded the pain to depart.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Graybeard	Graybeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | the Graybeard | Graybeard's voice |  |  | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | the Graybeard *not said here* | the pain |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **depart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Graybeard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/4/133/)
- next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/4/135/)
- ↑ back to [The Graybeard and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/4/)