Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 37
We worked under Dr. Goss’s directions, calling upon church members and others who we thought might be influenced to attend the services.
Who acts: We, church members, calling · What happens: work, call, think, influence, attend · To what, where: directions, services · 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 (We, church members, calling), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 directions | case |
| 4 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Goss | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Goss | Goss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 directions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Goss | case |
| 7 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 worked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 calling | punct |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 influenced | csubj:pass |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 members | case |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 members | compound |
| 12 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 calling | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 others | cc |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 members | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 members | acl:relcl |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 influenced | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 influenced | aux:pass |
| 20 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 worked | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 attend | mark |
| 22 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 influenced | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 services | det |
| 24 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attend | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | We | Goss Dr.'s directions | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | upon church members and others | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | church members and others | we nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | influence | might · passive | calling | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | attend | to-infinitive | calling not said here | the services | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Goal |
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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