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title: Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the fl… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the floor, bring in the wood! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 21

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Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the floor, bring in the wood!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, carry out, wash, sweep, bring · **To what, where:** fires, ashes, dishes, floor, wood

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:50:21
# text = Make the fires, carry out the ashes, wash these dishes, sweep the floor, bring in the wood!
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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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