Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 34

The pastor of the North Congregational Church, after the Hague Conference, invited a Chinese friend who had been on the commission to come to the church and tell about the meetings.

Who acts: pastor, Chinese friend · What happens: invite, be, come, tell · To what, where: Chinese friend, commission, church · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor, Chinese friend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pastor	det
2	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 invited	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Church	det
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Church	compound
6	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Church	compound
7	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pastor	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Conference	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 Conference	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Conference	det
11	Hague	Hague	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Conference	compound
12	Conference	Conference	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pastor	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pastor	punct
14	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 friend	det
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 friend	amod
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 invited	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 commission	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 commission	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 commission	cop
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 commission	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 commission	det
23	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 friend	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 commission	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 church	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 church	det
28	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 meetings	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 meetings	det
33	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite	past	the pastor of the North Congregational Church	a Chinese friend			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	a Chinese friend		the commission		tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	the pastor of the North Congregational Church not said here		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the pastor of the North Congregational Church not said here			about the meetings	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about meeting=Topic

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 34