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title: There, a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher Ch’uan taking par… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: There, a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher Ch’uan taking part, and a prayer and a hymn. Who acts: short service. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 22

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There, a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher Ch’uan taking part, and a prayer and a hymn.

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**Who acts:** short service · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** part

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (short service), 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:pg75089:5:22
# text = There, a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher Ch’uan taking part, and a prayer and a hymn.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Pastor	Pastor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Jen	Jen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Ch’uan	Ch'uan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher | part |  | there |  | a prayer and a hymn *conj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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