The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 101
The bath-stones are hot, and the fire burns low; your soap, your brushes, your combs—all are ready.
Who acts: bath stones, fire, all · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: soap
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bath stones, fire, all), 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 | 4 stones | det |
| 2 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stones | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bath | punct |
| 4 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burns | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burns | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burns | nsubj |
| 11 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | conj |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 burns | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 soap | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soap | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burns | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brushes | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brushes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soap | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 combs | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 combs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | combs | comb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soap | conj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 ready | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ready | cop |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hot | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bath stones | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | the fire | your soap and your brushes and your combs | low property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | all | ready property | tree rules |
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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