Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 26

She followed him, still blowing, until he threw away the bag containing the meat.

Who acts: woman, chief, bag · What happens: follow, blow, throw away, contain · To what, where: chief, bag, 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, chief, bag), 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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blowing	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 blowing	advmod
6	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 followed	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 threw	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 threw	nsubj
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blowing	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 threw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bag	det
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj
14	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 bag	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meat	det
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 containing	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	woman	chief			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	blow	gerund	woman not said here		still		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	throw away	past	chief	the bag		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
4	contain	gerund	the bag not said here	the meat			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meat=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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 26