Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 21

She went away and picked up an empty calabash, and when she returned she found the glutton roasting the legs, having already eaten the liver.

Who acts: woman, glutton · What happens: go away, pick up, return, find, roast, have · To what, where: empty calabash, glutton, legs, liver

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 picked	cc
5	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picked	compound:prt
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 calabash	det
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calabash	amod
9	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 returned	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returned	nsubj
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 glutton	det
18	glutton	glutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 glutton	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 legs	det
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roasting	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 having	punct
23	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 found	advcl
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 eaten	advmod
25	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 having	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 liver	det
27	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eaten	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go away	past	woman		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick up	participle	woman not said here	a empty calabash		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=Topic
3	return	past	woman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	woman	the glutton		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glutton=Topic
5	roast	gerund	the glutton not said here	the legs		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
6	have	gerund	woman not said here			tree rules
7	eat	participle	woman not said here	the liver		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Patient

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 21