Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 31

He told us of a plan he had for us to go together to Chicago, to be pastor’s assistants and Sunday-school workers in Mr. Moody’s, the Chicago Avenue Church.

Who acts: Moody, us · What happens: tell, have, go together, be · To what, where: us, Chicago · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moody, us), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 plan	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Chicago	case
15	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assistants	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	19 pastor	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 pastor	cop
19	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assistants	compound
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 pastor	case
21	assistants	assistant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 workers	cc
23	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 workers	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Sunday	punct
25	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 workers	compound
26	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 assistants	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 Moody	case
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Moody	nmod:desc
29	Moody	Moody	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 workers	nmod
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Moody	case
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Church	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Church	det
33	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Church	compound
34	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Church	compound
35	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 assistants	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Moody	us		of a plan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	Moody				tree rules
3	go together	to-infinitive	us		Chicago	pastor assistants the Chicago Avenue Church and Sunday school workers in Moody Mr. conj; together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chicago=Initial_Location
4	is	to-infinitive				's pastor	tree rules

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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 31

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 31