The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 13

He waved his arms above them, silently bidding them farewell, and left them there where they had fallen.

Who acts: sleep, arms · What happens: wave, bid, leave, fall · To what, where: arms

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 (sleep, arms), 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	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obj
5	above	above	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bidding	punct
8	silently	silently	ADV	_	9 bidding	advmod
9	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waved	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bidding	obj
11	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	9 bidding	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 left	advmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 fallen	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fallen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fallen	aux
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 left	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	past	sleep	sleep's arms		above arms = arm	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	bid	gerund	sleep not said here	arms = arm		farewell, silently property	tree rules
3	leave	past	sleep not said here	arms = arm	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	fall	past · perfect	arms = arm				vn occur-48.3 «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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 13