Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 4

Ode was a fine young man, and many women wanted him, but he would have nothing to do with them, and did not marry any other wives, as Edidor asked him to look upon her alone.

Who acts: Ode, many women, Edidor · What happens: be, want, have, do, not marry, ask · To what, where: fine young man, Ode, nothing, other wives

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, many women, 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	Ode	Ode	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 women	amod
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	parataxis
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 have	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 nothing	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 marry	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 marry	cc
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 marry	advmod
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	conj
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wives	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wives	amod
30	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 marry	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 asked	mark
33	Edidor	Edidor	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 asked	nsubj
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asked	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 look	mark
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 asked	xcomp
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 look	obl
40	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 look	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ode	a fine young man			tree rules
2	want	past	many women	Ode			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	have	would	Ode	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	Ode not said here	nothing not said here		with men = man	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not marry	past · do-support	Ode not said here	any other wives			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
6	ask speech: ask	past	Edidor		Ode		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Edidor not said here			upon Edidor; alone property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=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: «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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 4