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title: She rose quickly and hurried to the door, waving her hand to Kullerv… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She rose quickly and hurried to the door, waving her hand to Kullervo and calling to him in shrill, commanding tones: Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 49

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She rose quickly and hurried to the door, waving her hand to Kullervo and calling to him in shrill, commanding tones:

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** rise, hurry, wave, call, command · **To what, where:** door, hand, Kullervo, shrill, tones · **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 Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg66819:29:49
# text = She rose quickly and hurried to the door, waving her hand to Kullervo and calling to him in shrill, commanding tones:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
23	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurry** | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund | wife *not said here* | wife's hand | Kullervo |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to kullervo=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | wife *not said here* |  | Kullervo | shrill |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **command** | gerund | wife *not said here* | tones |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality |

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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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