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title: She went away and picked up an empty calabash, and when she returned… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 21

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:22:21
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	glutton	glutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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