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title: Nor did Jattayu, nor anyone in all the bird-world, know the reason w… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor did Jattayu, nor anyone in all the bird-world, know the reason why Little-Eagle Sanpati from that day forward remained the home-stay eagle who could not fly. Who acts: Nor, Little Eagle Sanpati, eagle. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia S
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 56

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Nor did Jattayu, nor anyone in all the bird-world, know the reason why Little-Eagle Sanpati from that day forward remained the home-stay eagle who could not fly.

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**Who acts:** Nor, Little Eagle Sanpati, eagle · **What happens:** do, know, remain, stay, not fly · **To what, where:** Jattayu, reason, home, eagle

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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 (Nor, Little Eagle Sanpati, eagle), 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:pg69647:1:56
# text = Nor did Jattayu, nor anyone in all the bird-world, know the reason why Little-Eagle Sanpati from that day forward remained the home-stay eagle who could not fly.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
18	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Nor | Jattayu |  |  |  | anyone in all bird world *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jattayu=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | Nor *not said here* | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remain** | past | Little Eagle Sanpati from that day | the home |  |  |  | forward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | Little Eagle Sanpati from that day *not said here* | eagle |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eagle=Location |
| 5 | **not** **fly** | could | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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