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title: Very early in her missionary life she felt the call of the country v… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Very early in her missionary life she felt the call of the country village work. Who acts: simplicity. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 13

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Very early in her missionary life she felt the call of the country village work.

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**Who acts:** simplicity · **What happens:** feel, call · **To what, where:** call, missionary life, village work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (simplicity), 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:pg75089:4:13
# text = Very early in her missionary life she felt the call of the country village work.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **feel** | past | simplicity | the call of the village work |  | simplicity's missionary life |  | early *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent call=Theme in life=Location |
| 2 | **call** |  |  | the village work |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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