Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 1

You stay outside a safe circle round it, keep burning sticks in it, and never light one when there is a fire ban, because in dry weather one spark can start a wildfire.

Who acts: You, fire ban, one spark · What happens: stay, keep, burn, not light, be, start · To what, where: safe circle, sticks, circle, one, wildfire, dry weather

This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fire ban, one spark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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