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title: We worked under Dr. Goss’s directions, calling upon church members a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 37

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We worked under Dr. Goss’s directions, calling upon church members and others who we thought might be influenced to attend the services.

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**Who acts:** We, church members, calling · **What happens:** work, call, think, influence, attend · **To what, where:** directions, services · **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 (We, church members, calling), 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:pg75089:3:37
# text = We worked under Dr. Goss’s directions, calling upon church members and others who we thought might be influenced to attend the services.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Goss	Goss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj:pass	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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