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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 56

Nor did Jattayu, nor anyone in all the bird-world, know the reason why Little-Eagle Sanpati from that day forward remained the home-stay eagle who could not fly.

Who acts: Nor, Little Eagle Sanpati, eagle · What happens: do, know, remain, stay, not fly · To what, where: Jattayu, reason, home, eagle

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 (Nor, Little Eagle Sanpati, eagle), 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

nsubjobjpunctccoblcasedet:predetdetcompoundpunctnmodpunctconjdetobjadvmodamodpunctcompoundnsubjcasedetnmodadvmodacldetobjpunctxcompobjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctrootNorPROPNdidVERBJattayuPROPN,PUNCTnorCCONJanyonePRONinADPallDETtheDETbirdNOUN-PUNCTworldNOUN,PUNCTknowVERBtheDETreasonNOUNwhyADVLittleADJ-PUNCTEaglePROPNSanpatiPROPNfromADPthatDETdayNOUNforwardADVremainedVERBtheDEThomeNOUN-PUNCTstayVERBeagleNOUNwhoPRONcouldAUXnotPARTflyVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NorNorPROPNNumber=Sing2 didnsubj
2diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3JattayuJattayuPROPNNumber=Sing2 didobj
4,,PUNCT_6 anyonepunct
5nornorCCONJPolarity=Neg6 anyonecc
6anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind2 didobl
7ininADP_12 worldcase
8allallDETPronType=Tot12 worlddet:predet
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 worlddet
10birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing12 worldcompound
11--PUNCT_10 birdpunct
12worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing6 anyonenmod
13,,PUNCT_14 knowpunct
14knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf6 anyoneconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 reasondet
16reasonreasonNOUNNumber=Sing14 knowobj
17whywhyADVPronType=Int26 remainedadvmod
18LittlelittleADJDegree=Pos21 Sanpatiamod
19--PUNCT_18 Littlepunct
20EagleEaglePROPNNumber=Sing21 Sanpaticompound
21SanpatiSanpatiPROPNNumber=Sing26 remainednsubj
22fromfromADP_24 daycase
23thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem24 daydet
24daydayNOUNNumber=Sing21 Sanpatinmod
25forwardforwardADV_26 remainedadvmod
26remainedremainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 reasonacl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 homedet
28homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing26 remainedobj
29--PUNCT_28 homepunct
30staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf26 remainedxcomp
31eagleeagleNOUNNumber=Sing30 stayobj
32whowhoPRONPronType=Rel35 flynsubj
33couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 flyaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 flyadvmod
35flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf31 eagleacl:relcl
36..PUNCT_2 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastNorJattayuanyone in all bird world oblvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jattayu=Eventuality
2knowinfinitiveNor not said herethe reasonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
3remainpastLittle Eagle Sanpati from that daythe homeforward propertytree rules
4stayinfinitiveLittle Eagle Sanpati from that day not said hereeaglevn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eagle=Location
5not flycouldeaglevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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