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title: Of roasts and steaks there were certainly a hundred barrels; of saus… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Of roasts and steaks there were certainly a hundred barrels; of sausages in large round links they made a hundred fathoms. Who acts: hundred barrels, sausages. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 17

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Of roasts and steaks there were certainly a hundred barrels; of sausages in large round links they made a hundred fathoms.

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**Who acts:** hundred barrels, sausages · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** hundred fathoms

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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: who acts (hundred barrels, sausages), 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:pg66819:27:17
# text = Of roasts and steaks there were certainly a hundred barrels; of sausages in large round links they made a hundred fathoms.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	roasts	roast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	steaks	steak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | hundred barrels |  |  | there |  | of roasts and steaks; sausages in large round links *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | sausages *= sausage* | hundred fathoms |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fathom=Product |

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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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