--- title: Keroho, hearing the drum, got up and went to the fire in his back ya… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Keroho, hearing the drum, got up and went to the fire in his back yard, where he had left the meat drying, and, to his intense astonishment, found that it had vanished. Who acts: Keroho, intense astonishment. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keroho, intense astonishment), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:4:26 # text = Keroho, hearing the drum, got up and went to the fire in his back yard, where he had left the meat drying, and, to his intense astonishment, found that it had vanished. 1 Keroho Keroho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 drying drying NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 intense intense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | Keroho *not said here* | the drum | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | | 2 | **get up** | past | Keroho | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **go** | past | Keroho *not said here* | | | the fire | | in Keroho's back yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **leave** | past · perfect | Keroho | the meat drying | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drying=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | Keroho's intense astonishment | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **vanish** | past · perfect · passive | | astonishment | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **astonish** | | Keroho | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/4/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/4/27/) - ↑ back to [Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/4/)