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title: And in Little-Eagle Sanpati’s heart was a great gladness that Jattay… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in Little-Eagle Sanpati’s heart was a great gladness that Jattayu had had his desire. Who acts: Eagle heart, Jattayu, 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 eve
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

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And in Little-Eagle Sanpati’s heart was a great gladness that Jattayu had had his desire.

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**Who acts:** Eagle heart, Jattayu, Sanpati · **What happens:** be, have, desire · **To what, where:** great gladness, desire

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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 heart, Jattayu, 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:pg69647:1:55
# text = And in Little-Eagle Sanpati’s heart was a great gladness that Jattayu had had his desire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Eagle heart | a great gladness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | Jattayu | Sanpati's desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 3 | **desire** |  | Sanpati |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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