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title: Put plenty of wood around the bath-stones and build a roaring fire. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Put plenty of wood around the bath-stones and build 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 78

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Put plenty of wood around the bath-stones and build a roaring fire.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, build · **To what, where:** plenty, bath stones, 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:pg66819:20:78
# text = Put plenty of wood around the bath-stones and build a roaring fire.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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