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title: She lifted her arms, she raised her eyes towards heaven, and called… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She lifted her arms, she raised her eyes towards heaven, and called to the North Wind to prosper the voyage for her departing guest: Who acts: Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 105

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She lifted her arms, she raised her eyes towards heaven, and called to the North Wind to prosper the voyage for her departing guest:

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**Who acts:** Mistress · **What happens:** lift, raise, call, prosper · **To what, where:** arms, eyes, heaven, North Wind, voyage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress), 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:pg66819:12:105
# text = She lifted her arms, she raised her eyes towards heaven, and called to the North Wind to prosper the voyage for her departing guest:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	departing	departing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Mistress | Mistress's arms |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | past | Mistress | Mistress's eyes |  | heaven |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards heaven=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  | the North Wind |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient |
| 4 | **prosper** | to-infinitive |  | the voyage |  |  |  | for Mistress's departing guest | tree rules |

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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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