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title: The table was spread and the mid-day meal was served—white bread fre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 76

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:29:76
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	bake	bake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	tid	tid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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