Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 58

At length Iktomi consented to sing his songs.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: consent, sing · To what, where: length, songs

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IKTOMI), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consented	obl
3	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 length	appos
4	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 consented	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 songs	nmod:poss
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sing	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	consent	past			length	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive		IKTOMI's songs		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	sing		IKTOMI			nom song «communication intransitive»: 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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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