The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 124
Forthwith thick clouds obscured the sky and dense fogs covered the waters like a cloak of darkness.
Who acts: Forthwith thick clouds, dense fogs · What happens: obscure, cover · To what, where: sky, waters
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Forthwith thick clouds, dense fogs), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clouds | amod |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clouds | amod |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 obscured | nsubj |
| 4 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obscured | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 covered | cc |
| 8 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fogs | amod |
| 9 | fogs | fog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | nsubj |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obscured | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 cloak | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cloak | det |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 darkness | case |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cloak | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obscured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obscure | past | Forthwith thick clouds | the sky | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | dense fogs | the waters | like a cloak of darkness | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination |
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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