Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 16

She saw a glutton (called an igongqongqo, a fabulous monster, like a man, but capable of devouring enormous quantities of food) coming, and asked him to help her.

Who acts: woman, glutton · What happens: see, call, devour, come, ask, help · To what, where: glutton, igongqongqo, enormous quantities, man, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, glutton), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glutton	det
4	glutton	glutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glutton	acl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 igongqongqo	det
8	igongqongqo	igongqongqo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 monster	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 monster	det
11	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 monster	amod
12	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glutton	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 capable	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 capable	cc
19	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 devouring	mark
21	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 coming	advcl
22	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 quantities	amod
23	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 devouring	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 food	case
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quantities	nmod
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 devouring	punct
27	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 capable	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asked	xcomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 help	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	woman	a glutton and a fabulous monster		like a man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glutton=Stimulus
2	call	participle	a glutton and a fabulous monster not said here	a igongqongqo			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	devour	gerund		enormous quantities of food			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient
4	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	woman not said here		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here		woman		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 16

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 16