The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 41
A feast was soon provided—meats the tenderest and most delicious, loaves of the whitest flour, yellow cakes both light and sweet, lumps of fresh butter just from the churn, broiled salmon smoking hot.
What happens: provide, broil · To what, where: feast
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | aux:pass |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 provided | advmod |
| 5 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 meats | punct |
| 7 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 provided | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tenderest | det |
| 9 | tenderest | tender | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 meats | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 delicious | cc |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 delicious | advmod |
| 12 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tenderest | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loaves | punct |
| 14 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meats | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flour | det |
| 17 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 flour | amod |
| 18 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loaves | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cakes | punct |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cakes | amod |
| 21 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meats | conj |
| 22 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 light | cc:preconj |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cakes | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sweet | cc |
| 25 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lumps | punct |
| 27 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meats | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 butter | case |
| 29 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 butter | amod |
| 30 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lumps | nmod |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 churn | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 churn | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 churn | det |
| 34 | churn | churn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 butter | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 smoking | punct |
| 36 | broiled | broil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 smoking | amod |
| 37 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 smoking | compound |
| 38 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meats | conj |
| 39 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 smoking | amod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past · passive | a feast | meats the tenderest and loaves of the whitest flour and yellow cakes light and lumps of fresh butter from the churn and broiled salmon smoking obj; soon property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary meat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | broil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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