Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 110

When Sun Hou told the great God of Rain, he said, “I will not let them say how much I am to give, I will give enough.”

Who acts: Sun, feet · What happens: tell, say, not let, be, give · To what, where: great God, feet, enough · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	Hou	Hou	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sun	flat
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 God	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 God	amod
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rain	case
9	Rain	Rain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 God	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 much	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 much	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 much	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	conj
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 give	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Sun		the great God of Rain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Sun				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not let in a quote	future	Sun	feet = foot			tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	feet = foot not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Sun			much property	tree rules
6	give in a quote	to-infinitive					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	give in a quote	future	Sun	enough			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Theme

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.

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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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 110