The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 69
“Heap the wood around the big bath-stones; put plenty of dry kindlings underneath, then lay hot coals around and make a roaring fire.
Who acts: you · What happens: heap, put, lay around, make · To what, where: wood, big bath stones, plenty, hot coals, roaring fire
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heap | punct |
| 2 | Heap | heap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Heap | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 stones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stones | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stones | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bath | punct |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Heap | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Heap | conj |
| 13 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kindlings | case |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kindlings | amod |
| 16 | kindlings | kindling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plenty | nmod |
| 17 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lay | advmod |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Heap | conj |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 coals | amod |
| 22 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obj |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 27 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fire | compound |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the wood | the big bath stones | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wood=Theme around stone=Destination | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | participle | you not said here | plenty of dry kindlings | underneath property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent plenty=Goal | |||
| 3 | lay around in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | hot coals | then | around property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Result | ||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a roaring fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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