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title: He told us of a plan he had for us to go together to Chicago, to be… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and t
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 31

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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.

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

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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 (Moody, us), 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:pg75089:3:31
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	assistants	assistant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Moody	Moody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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