Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

It was because in protecting Big-Brother Jattayu whom he loved, from the rays of the sun, poor Little-Eagle Sanpati’s wings had all been scorched away.

Who acts: reason, Sanpati · What happens: protect, love, scorch away, ray · To what, where: Big, rays, wings, sun

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 (reason, Sanpati), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protecting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 protecting	aux
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 protecting	mark
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 protecting	mark
5	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 protecting	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Brother	punct
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Big	conj
9	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brother	flat
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loved	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 protecting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rays	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 rays	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rays	det
16	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 loved	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rays	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 poor	punct
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rays	conj
22	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Eagle	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Little	punct
24	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Sanpati	compound
25	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wings	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Sanpati	case
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scorched	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 scorched	aux
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 scorched	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 scorched	aux:pass
31	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 poor	advcl
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 scorched	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 protecting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	protect	past · progressive	reason		Big and Brother		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent big=Beneficiary
2	love	past	Sanpati	the rays of the sun		whom obj	tree rules
3	scorch away	past · perfect · passive		Eagle Sanpati's wings		all, away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	ray			the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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: «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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 57