--- title: When Jattayu ranged the air, he was a king; but when he flew back on… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian tales of the great ones among m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/) / 42 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg69647:1:42 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Jattayu Jattayu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ranged range VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 outspread outspread ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 Sanpati Sanpati PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/43/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg69647/1/)