Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 25

She continued blowing, until the glutton was so frightened that he took his bag and put the remainder of the meat into it, and ran away.

Who acts: woman, glutton, chief · What happens: continue, blow, be, take, put, run away · To what, where: bag, remainder, meat

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, chief), 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 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 continued	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 frightened	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glutton	det
7	glutton	glutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frightened	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
10	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 continued	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 took	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bag	nmod:poss
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 remainder	det
19	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 meat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meat	det
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remainder	nmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 ran	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	woman				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	blow	gerund	woman not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the glutton			frightened property	tree rules
4	take	past	chief	chief's bag			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
5	put	infinitive	chief not said here	the remainder of the meat	meat		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent remainder=Goal
6	run away	past	woman not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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 25

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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 25