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title: Soon the breakfast was prepared and all sat down upon the sand to ea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the breakfast was prepared and all sat down upon the sand to eat the delicious morsels which the maidens had cooked. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 61

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

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:34:61
# text = Soon the breakfast was prepared and all sat down upon the sand to eat the delicious morsels which the maidens had cooked.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **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 |

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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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