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title: They beckoned to him, called to him; and he, with right goodwill, cl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They beckoned to him, called to him; and he, with right goodwill, climbed up, up, towards the moonlight and the starlight. Who acts: stars, Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 5

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They beckoned to him, called to him; and he, with right goodwill, climbed up, up, towards the moonlight and the starlight.

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**Who acts:** stars, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** beckon, call, climb up · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen, moonlight · **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 Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:8:5
# text = They beckoned to him, called to him; and he, with right goodwill, climbed up, up, towards the moonlight and the starlight.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	starlight	starlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beckon** | past | stars *= star* |  | Ilmarinen |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  | Ilmarinen |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **climb up** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | the moonlight and the starlight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards moonlight=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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