Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 32

When he saw that Ode’s life had been in danger and that he had escaped, the old man repented, and told Ode to stay at Okuni and he would try to make Edidor return to him.

Who acts: Ode, life, Edidor · What happens: see, be, escape, repent, tell, stay · To what, where: danger, old man, Ode, Okuni, Edidor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ode, life, Edidor), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 danger	mark
5	Ode	Ode	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 life	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Ode	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 danger	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 danger	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 danger	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 danger	case
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 escaped	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 escaped	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 escaped	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 escaped	aux
16	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 danger	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 danger	appos
21	repented	repent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 man	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	Ode	Ode	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 told	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 Okuni	case
29	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 try	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 try	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 try	aux
33	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stay	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 try	xcomp
36	Edidor	Edidor	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 return	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Ode					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past · perfect	Ode's life			danger	the old man appos	tree rules
3	escape	past · perfect	Ode					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	repent	participle		the old man not said here				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past			Ode			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ode=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive				Okuni		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at okuni=Location
7	try	would	Ode					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ode not said here	Edidor				tree rules
9	return not said to happen	infinitive	Edidor not said here		Ode			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result

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.

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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 32