Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 2

So much time and study did he give to them that tradition says he understood all bird language and many stories are told of him in this connection.

Who acts: much time, tradition, sage · What happens: give, say, understand, tell · To what, where: birds, bird language, many stories, connection · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much time, tradition, sage), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 study	cc
5	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 says	mark
12	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 give	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 understood	nsubj
15	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 language	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 language	compound
18	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 understood	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	amod
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 told	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux:pass
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 language	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 connection	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 connection	det
28	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	much time and study		birds = bird		sage nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	tradition					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	understand	past	sage	all bird language				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		many stories		this connection	of sage	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 2