The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 61

Soon the breakfast was prepared and all sat down upon the sand to eat the delicious morsels which the maidens had cooked.

What happens: prepare, sit down, eat, cook · To what, where: breakfast, sand, delicious morsels

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.

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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 prepared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 breakfast	det
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	aux:pass
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 sand	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sand	det
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sat	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morsels	det
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morsels	amod
17	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cooked	nsubj:pass
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maidens	det
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cooked	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cooked	aux
22	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 morsels	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · passive	the breakfast		soon property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sit down	past		the sand	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sand=Location
3	eat	to-infinitive	the delicious morsels			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
4	cook	past · perfect · passive	the delicious morsels		the maidens nsubj:pass	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 61