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title: And day after day Jattayu ranged the air, marshalling his bird-armie… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And day after day Jattayu ranged the air, marshalling his bird-armies, or settling disputes, or swooping down on the things which he sought for food--for all the bird-people belonged to Jattayu, and owed him allegiance even with their lives, if so he should desire. Who acts: Jattayu, things, bird pe
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 38

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And day after day Jattayu ranged the air, marshalling his bird-armies, or settling disputes, or swooping down on the things which he sought for food--for all the bird-people belonged to Jattayu, and owed him allegiance even with their lives, if so he should desire.

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**Who acts:** Jattayu, things, bird people, spot · **What happens:** range, marshall, settle, swoop down, seek, belong · **To what, where:** air, bird armies, disputes, things, Jattayu, allegiance

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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, things, bird people, spot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg69647:1:38
# text = And day after day Jattayu ranged the air, marshalling his bird-armies, or settling disputes, or swooping down on the things which he sought for food--for all the bird-people belonged to Jattayu, and owed him allegiance even with their lives, if so he should desire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	marshalling	marshall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
18	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	iobj	_	_
45	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past | Jattayu | the air |  |  | day |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme |
| 2 | **marshall** | gerund | Jattayu *not said here* | spot's bird armies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | gerund | Jattayu *not said here* | disputes |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dispute=Location |
| 4 | **swoop down** | gerund | Jattayu *not said here* |  |  | the things |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | past | the things |  |  |  |  | for food; spot *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme |
| 6 | **belong** | past | all bird people |  | Jattayu |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **owe** | past |  | allegiance | spot |  |  | with Jattayu's lives | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal allegiance=Theme |
| 8 | **desire** | should | spot |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

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**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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