The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 75

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

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.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Graybeard	det
2	Graybeard	Graybeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bound	nsubj
3	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bands	amod
5	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bound	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 linen	case
7	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bands	nmod
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 limb	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 limb	det
10	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bound	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bound	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Minstrel	det
15	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 bed	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bed	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bed	amod
19	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bed	amod
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 covered	nsubj
23	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bound	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 covered	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 robes	case
26	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 robes	amod
27	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 covered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bade	cc
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 robes	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rest	nsubj
31	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	27 robes	acl:relcl
32	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	31 rest	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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.

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 75