The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 94
Broiled salmon, pork, the meat of lambkins were served to each guest’s liking.
What happens: broil, serve · To what, where: Broiled salmon, liking
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broiled | broil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 salmon | amod |
| 2 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 served | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pork | punct |
| 4 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 salmon | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meat | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meat | det |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 salmon | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lambkins | case |
| 9 | lambkins | lambkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meat | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 served | aux:pass |
| 11 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 liking | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 guest | det |
| 14 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 liking | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 guest | case |
| 16 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 served | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | Broiled salmon and pork and the meat of lambkins | each guest's liking | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to liking=Recipient |
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: «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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