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title: It was because in protecting Big-Brother Jattayu whom he loved, from… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was because in protecting Big-Brother Jattayu whom he loved, from the rays of the sun, poor Little-Eagle Sanpati’s wings had all been scorched away. Who acts: reason, Sanpati. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 1, wi
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

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It was because in protecting Big-Brother Jattayu whom he loved, from the rays of the sun, poor Little-Eagle Sanpati’s wings had all been scorched away.

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**Who acts:** reason, Sanpati · **What happens:** protect, love, scorch away, ray · **To what, where:** Big, rays, wings, sun

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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 (reason, 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:pg69647:1:57
# text = It was because in protecting Big-Brother Jattayu whom he loved, from the rays of the sun, poor Little-Eagle Sanpati’s wings had all been scorched away.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	Jattayu	Jattayu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Sanpati	Sanpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | past · progressive | reason |  | Big and Brother |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent big=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **love** | past | Sanpati | the rays of the sun |  |  |  | whom *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **scorch away** | past · perfect · passive |  | Eagle Sanpati's wings |  |  |  | all, away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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