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title: The Graybeard bound soft bands of linen around the limb, he laid the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Graybeard bound soft bands of linen around the limb, he laid the Minstrel upon his own rude bed, he covered him with warm robes and bade him rest quietly. 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 dependen
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 75

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The Graybeard bound soft bands of linen around the limb, he laid the Minstrel upon his own rude bed, he covered him with warm robes and bade him rest quietly.

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**Who acts:** Graybeard · **What happens:** bind, lay, cover, rest · **To what, where:** soft bands, limb, Minstrel, own rude bed, warm robes

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:4:75
# text = The Graybeard bound soft bands of linen around the limb, he laid the Minstrel upon his own rude bed, he covered him with warm robes and bade him rest quietly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Graybeard	Graybeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past | the Graybeard | soft bands of linen |  | the limb |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Graybeard | the Minstrel |  | Graybeard's own rude bed |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme upon bed=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | past | Graybeard |  | Minstrel |  |  | with warm robes and bade | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with robe=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** | present | Graybeard | warm robes and bade *not said here* |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location robe=Theme |

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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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