Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 21
Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the floor, bring in the wood!
Who acts: you · What happens: make, carry out, wash, sweep, bring · To what, where: fires, ashes, dishes, floor, wood
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. 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.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fires | det |
| 3 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Make | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 carry | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ashes | det |
| 8 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wash | punct |
| 10 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 dishes | det |
| 12 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wash | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sweep | punct |
| 14 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wash | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweep | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wash | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the fires | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | carry out | infinitive | the ashes | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | this dishes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sweep | infinitive | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | the wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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