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title: The impulse which went upward in prayer and outward in loving servic… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The impulse which went upward in prayer and outward in loving service had its fruition in a clearer vision of the earth mission of the Master, a vision for herself, and a vision for the thousands with whom she came in touch. Who acts: impulse, RUSSELL. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore»
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 40

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The impulse which went upward in prayer and outward in loving service had its fruition in a clearer vision of the earth mission of the Master, a vision for herself, and a vision for the thousands with whom she came in touch.

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**Who acts:** impulse, RUSSELL · **What happens:** go, have, come, fruit · **To what, where:** prayer, fruition, clearer vision, touch

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (impulse, RUSSELL), 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:pg75089:1:40
# text = The impulse which went upward in prayer and outward in loving service had its fruition in a clearer vision of the earth mission of the Master, a vision for herself, and a vision for the thousands with whom she came in touch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impulse	impulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fruition	fruition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the impulse |  |  | prayer |  | in loving service; upward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in prayer=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | the impulse | impulse's fruition |  | a clearer vision of the earth mission of the Master |  | a vision for the thousands with a vision for the thousands with a vision *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruition=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | RUSSELL |  |  | touch |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in touch=Location |
| 4 | **fruit** |  | impulse |  |  |  |  |  | nom fruition «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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