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Table 4.1
Synoptic Table: Semantic 1 Structural (Vdr-02)
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Vayu— The earth: Space of Sun god Surya and all
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Hanuman conflict and stake gods in heaven
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Hanuman when taking Gods afraid; request
birth jumps to swallow Indra to knock
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the sun. Hanuman down.
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Hanuman falls on earth. All the gods are furious
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with Vayu.
2nd sequence: Retaliation
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Vayu decides to keep alive The donkey is allowed Śankar travels and
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only the donkey grazing to keep grazing under wanders all around
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under the tree below his the tree below Vayu’s on earth in search of
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hideout. hideout provided he Vayu .He discovers
keeps the secret of the donkey grazing
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Vayu’s hideout; the under the tree, at
donkey gives his word. ease; he suspects the
donkey of knowing
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whereabouts of Vayu.
3rd sequence: Appeasement
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Hideout revealed by the Donkey blows Vayu’s cover Śankar pets the donkey,
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donkey. out of self-conceit, elated humbly entreats him,
at the idea of having holding his feet and
Śankar Pinda in his hoof offering his Pinda as
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forever. a permanent mark.
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Vayu is placated; appeased, Śankar’s demand that life Śankar makes an
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he honours the demand and creation be saved apology to Vayu and
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of Śankar; reconciliation is granted when Vayu begs pardon in the
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follows. obliges. name of all the gods.
4th sequence: Malediction
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Vayu remains terribly The curse on the donkey is
enraged with the donkey; a sanction for breaking
he vengefully curses him. his word: life-long hard
work as a load-carrier.
Semanteme gives the specific idioms or lexemes of the narrative:
they may be representations, objects, concepts, events, imaginary fig-
ures, etc. We possibly sort them out with four concepts: actant, space,
action and function. Mytheme gives the stereoptyped narrative units
used by the discourse. Logic mode tries to identify the logic structures
which shape the texture of the whole text and give it consistency.