--- title: Make a fire of two sticks, or twenty, or two hundred--any number wil… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: Make a fire of two sticks, or twenty, or two hundred--any number will do: and if you walk round the fire sunwise, with that one whom you would have for a friend, the gods themselves will not take back the gift. Who acts: you, number, Gods. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, wom --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/) / 102 # Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 102 Make a fire of two sticks, or twenty, or two hundred--any number will do: and if you walk round the fire sunwise, with that one whom you would have for a friend, the gods themselves will not take back the gift. **Who acts:** you, number, Gods · **What happens:** make, do, walk, have, not take back, fire · **To what, where:** fire, one, gift, two sticks This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, number, Gods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:2:102 # text = Make a fire of two sticks, or twenty, or two hundred--any number will do: and if you walk round the fire sunwise, with that one whom you would have for a friend, the gods themselves will not take back the gift. 1 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 round round ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 sunwise sunwise ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 32 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 42 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 back back ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fire of two sticks | | | | twenty *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | | 2 | **do** | future | any number | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | the fire | | that one and the gods *parataxis*; sunwise *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fire=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | would | you | that one and the gods | | | | for a friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | | 5 | **not** **take back** | future | Gods *= god* | the gift | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 6 | **fire** | | | two sticks | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/2/)