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title: “Heap the wood around the big bath-stones; put plenty of dry kindlin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. 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 ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 69

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“Heap the wood around the big bath-stones; put plenty of dry kindlings underneath, then lay hot coals around and make a roaring fire.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** heap, put, lay around, make · **To what, where:** wood, big bath stones, plenty, hot coals, roaring fire

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:20:69
# text = “Heap the wood around the big bath-stones; put plenty of dry kindlings underneath, then lay hot coals around and make a roaring fire.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Heap	heap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kindlings	kindling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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