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

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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.”

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:16:110
# text = 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.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Rain	Rain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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