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title: The pastor of the North Congregational Church, after the Hague Confe… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The pastor of the North Congregational Church, after the Hague Conference, invited a Chinese friend who had been on the commission to come to the church and tell about the meetings. Who acts: pastor, Chinese friend. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 34

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The pastor of the North Congregational Church, after the Hague Conference, invited a Chinese friend who had been on the commission to come to the church and tell about the meetings.

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**Who acts:** pastor, Chinese friend · **What happens:** invite, be, come, tell · **To what, where:** Chinese friend, commission, church · **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 (pastor, Chinese friend), 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:pg75089:4:34
# text = The pastor of the North Congregational Church, after the Hague Conference, invited a Chinese friend who had been on the commission to come to the church and tell about the meetings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Conference	Conference	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | the pastor of the North Congregational Church |  | a Chinese friend |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | a Chinese friend |  |  | the commission |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the pastor of the North Congregational Church *not said here* |  |  | the church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the pastor of the North Congregational Church *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the meetings | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about meeting=Topic |

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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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