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title: Forthwith thick clouds obscured the sky and dense fogs covered the w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith thick clouds obscured the sky and dense fogs covered the waters like a cloak of darkness. Who acts: Forthwith thick clouds, dense fogs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 124

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Forthwith thick clouds obscured the sky and dense fogs covered the waters like a cloak of darkness.

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**Who acts:** Forthwith thick clouds, dense fogs · **What happens:** obscure, cover · **To what, where:** sky, waters

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:36:124
# text = Forthwith thick clouds obscured the sky and dense fogs covered the waters like a cloak of darkness.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	obscured	obscure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fogs	fog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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