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title: A feast was soon provided—meats the tenderest and most delicious, lo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with i
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 41

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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.

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**What happens:** provide, broil · **To what, where:** feast

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:28:41
# text = 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.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tenderest	tender	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
22	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	broiled	broil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
37	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
39	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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