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title: The furlough never came, but instead, the call to “Come up higher.” — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The furlough never came, but instead, the call to “Come up higher.” Who acts: furlough. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 111

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The furlough never came, but instead, the call to “Come up higher.”

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**Who acts:** furlough · **What happens:** not come, come up

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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 (furlough), 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:pg75089:3:111
# text = The furlough never came, but instead, the call to “Come up higher.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	furlough	furlough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | past | the furlough |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the furlough *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead the call | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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