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title: Good food we will give you—choice bacon, fresh salmon from the sea,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Good food we will give you—choice bacon, fresh salmon from the sea, white cakes of barley, hot from the oven. Who acts: Good food. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 85

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Good food we will give you—choice bacon, fresh salmon from the sea, white cakes of barley, hot from the oven.

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**Who acts:** Good food · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** choice bacon, you

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:2:85
# text = Good food we will give you—choice bacon, fresh salmon from the sea, white cakes of barley, hot from the oven.
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | Good food | choice bacon and fresh salmon from the sea and white cakes of barley | you |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bacon=Theme |

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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.

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**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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