The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 76

The table was spread and the mid-day meal was served—white bread fresh from the bake-oven, choice butter and yellow cream from the dairy, tid-bits of beef and smoked salmon.

What happens: spread, serve, tid, smoke · To what, where: table, mid-day meal, bits

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux:pass
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 served	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meal	det
7	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meal	compound
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 served	aux:pass
10	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spread	conj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 bread	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bread	amod
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bread	amod
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 oven	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 oven	det
17	bake	bake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oven	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bake	punct
19	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fresh	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 butter	punct
21	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 butter	compound
22	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oven	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cream	cc
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cream	amod
25	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 oven	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 dairy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dairy	det
28	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cream	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tid	punct
30	tid	tid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 bread	parataxis
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bits	punct
32	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tid	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 beef	case
34	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bits	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 salmon	cc
36	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 salmon	amod
37	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beef	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive	the table	white bread obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	serve	past · passive	the mid-day meal		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	tid	infinitive	bits of beef and smoked salmon		tree rules
4	smoke	participle			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 76