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title: In reality the hare suggested Keroho for a very different reason, an… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: In reality the hare suggested Keroho for a very different reason, and that reason was that Keroho was a fat animal in good condition, and far too lazy and sleepy to guard the meat properly. Who acts: hare, reason. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 21

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In reality the hare suggested Keroho for a very different reason, and that reason was that Keroho was a fat animal in good condition, and far too lazy and sleepy to guard the meat properly.

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**Who acts:** hare, reason · **What happens:** suggest, be, guard · **To what, where:** Keroho, reality, fat animal, good condition, meat

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, reason), 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:pg70959:4:21
# text = In reality the hare suggested Keroho for a very different reason, and that reason was that Keroho was a fat animal in good condition, and far too lazy and sleepy to guard the meat properly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Keroho	Keroho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	Keroho	Keroho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the hare | Keroho |  | reality |  | for a different reason | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent keroho=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that reason | a fat animal |  | good condition |  | Keroho *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guard** | to-infinitive | the hare *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Beneficiary |

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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:** «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (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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