Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 85

At length one of the dancers could close his eyes no longer!

What happens: close · To what, where: eyes, length

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: 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	8 close	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 length	flat
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dancers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dancers	det
6	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 close	aux
8	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 close	obj
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 close	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	could		folk's eyes		length		long property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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