The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 17

He had scarcely spoken when the sky was overcast and heavy gray clouds obscured the sun. The North Wind, like an untamed monster, came hurtling over the land, howling and shrieking, as fierce as a thousand wolves, as fleet as the swiftest reindeer.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, heavy gray clouds · What happens: speak, overcast, obscure, untam, come, hurtle · To what, where: sky, North Wind, land · Speech: someone speaks here

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

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 overcast	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overcast	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overcast	aux:pass
9	overcast	overcast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoken	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 obscured	cc
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clouds	amod
12	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clouds	compound
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 obscured	nsubj
14	obscured	obscure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun.	det
16	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 obscured	obj
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Wind	det
18	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Wind	compound
19	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 obscured	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 monster	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 monster	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 monster	det
23	untamed	untam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 monster	amod
24	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Wind	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obscured	conj
27	hurtling	hurtle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 came	advcl
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 land	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 land	det
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hurtling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 howling	punct
32	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hurtling	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 shrieking	cc
34	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 howling	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fierce	punct
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 fierce	case
37	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 came	conj
38	as	as	ADP	_	41 wolves	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 thousand	det
40	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 wolves	nummod
41	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fierce	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fleet	punct
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 fleet	case
44	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	48 reindeer	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 reindeer	det
47	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 reindeer	amod
48	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fleet	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	Ilmarinen				scarcely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overcast	past · passive		the sky				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
3	obscure	past	heavy gray clouds	the North Wind		sunday		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
4	untam	participle						tree rules
5	come	past	heavy gray clouds not said here				as fleet as the swiftest reindeer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hurtle	gerund	heavy gray clouds not said here		the land			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory
7	howl	gerund	heavy gray clouds not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	shriek	gerund	heavy gray clouds not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 17