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title: And day after day Little-Eagle Sanpati kept wondering how this could… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And day after day Little-Eagle Sanpati kept wondering how this could be managed. Who acts: Eagle Sanpati. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 46

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And day after day Little-Eagle Sanpati kept wondering how this could be managed.

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**Who acts:** Eagle Sanpati · **What happens:** keep, wonder, manage · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Eagle Sanpati), 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:pg69647:1:46
# text = And day after day Little-Eagle Sanpati kept wondering how this could be managed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Eagle Sanpati |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Eagle Sanpati *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **manage** | could · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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