The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 78
Put plenty of wood around the bath-stones and build a roaring fire.
Who acts: you · What happens: put, build · To what, where: plenty, bath stones, 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plenty | nmod |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stones | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bath | punct |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 build | cc |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 13 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fire | compound |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 build | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | plenty of wood | the bath stones | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme around stone=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | present | 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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