Complex sentence: Sitting on the steps of an old dilapidated house is a young man carving on a piece of wood, looking up and seeing the approaching vehicles, standing he quietly whispers the name "Swann".
Split into simpler sentences: Sitting on the steps of an old dilapidated house is a young man carving on a piece of wood, looking up and seeing the approaching vehicles. Standing, he quietly whispers the name "Swann".