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title: The bath-stones are hot, and the fire burns low; your soap, your bru… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 101

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The bath-stones are hot, and the fire burns low; your soap, your brushes, your combs—all are ready.

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**Who acts:** bath stones, fire, all · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** soap

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:20:101
# text = The bath-stones are hot, and the fire burns low; your soap, your brushes, your combs—all are ready.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	combs	comb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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