Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

And Jattayu consented; and they circled, Little-Eagle Sanpati and Big-Brother Jattayu, higher and higher, till they got so near to the sun that even Jattayu had had enough, and turned to fly back to the safe quiet nest in the white earth mountains, taking Little-Eagle Sanpati with him.

Who acts: Jattayu · What happens: consent, circle, get, have, turn, fly back · To what, where: Eagle Sanpati, sun, white earth mountains, Little Eagle Sanpati

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 consented	cc
2	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 circled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 circled	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 circled	nsubj
7	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sanpati	punct
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Eagle	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Little	punct
11	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sanpati	compound
12	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 circled	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Big	cc
14	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sanpati	conj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Brother	punct
16	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sanpati	conj
17	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brother	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 higher	punct
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 Sanpati	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 higher	cc
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 higher	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 got	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 circled	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 near	advmod
27	near	near	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 sun	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	obj
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 Jattayu	advmod
33	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	aux
35	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sun	acl:relcl
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 had	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 turned	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 turned	cc
39	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 fly	mark
41	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 turned	xcomp
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 fly	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	47 nest	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 nest	det
45	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 nest	amod
46	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 nest	amod
47	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	52 mountains	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mountains	det
50	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 mountains	amod
51	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mountains	compound
52	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 fly	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 taking	punct
54	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 turned	advcl
55	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Sanpati	amod
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 Little	punct
57	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Sanpati	compound
58	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 taking	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 him	case
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 taking	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Jattayu					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	circle	past	Jattayu	Eagle Sanpati and Big and Brother				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	Jattayu				to the sun result; near property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sun=Result
4	have	past · perfect	Jattayu	the sun			enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	turn	past	Jattayu not said here					tree rules
6	fly back	to-infinitive	Jattayu not said here			the white earth mountains	to the safe quiet nest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location
7	take	gerund	Jattayu not said here		Little Eagle Sanpati		with Sanpati	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sanpati=Destination

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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🌲 Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 51