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title: The young men hastened to gather sticks on the shore to feed the fir… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The young men hastened to gather sticks on the shore to feed the fire, to make hot coals for the broiling. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 58

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The young men hastened to gather sticks on the shore to feed the fire, to make hot coals for the broiling.

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**What happens:** hasten, gather, feed, make, broil · **To what, where:** young men, sticks, shore, fire, hot coals

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:34:58
# text = The young men hastened to gather sticks on the shore to feed the fire, to make hot coals for the broiling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	broiling	broil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive |  | sticks |  | the shore |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | hot coals |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product |
| 5 | **broil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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