Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 42
When Jattayu ranged the air, he was a king; but when he flew back on strong outspread wing to his home in the snow mountains, he was only the big brother of Little-Eagle Sanpati.
Who acts: Jattayu, spot · What happens: range, be, fly back · To what, where: air, king, strong outspread wing, big brother
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jattayu, spot), 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 ranged | advmod |
| 2 | Jattayu | Jattayu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ranged | nsubj |
| 3 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 king | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 king | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranged | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 flew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ranged | parataxis |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wing | case |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wing | amod |
| 19 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wing | amod |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mountains | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mountains | det |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mountains | compound |
| 27 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 brother | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 brother | cop |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 brother | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 brother | det |
| 33 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 brother | amod |
| 34 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Eagle | case |
| 36 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Eagle | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Little | punct |
| 38 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 brother | nmod |
| 39 | Sanpati | Sanpati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Eagle | flat |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | range | past | Jattayu | the air | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | spot | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly back | past | spot | strong outspread wing | to spot's home; in the snow mountains | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wing=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | past | spot | the big brother | of Little Eagle | tree rules |
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: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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