The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 37
And however beautiful may be thy wife's eyes, still eyes are only eyes, and a woman is not all eye, but something more.
Who acts: eyes, woman · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: eyes, eye
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beautiful | cc |
| 2 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eyes | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eyes | cop |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beautiful | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 eyes | advmod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eyes | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 eyes | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 eyes | advmod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eyes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eye | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eye | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eye | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eye | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 eye | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 eye | det |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beautiful | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 something | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 something | cc |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 eye | conj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 something | amod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | thy wife's eyes and eyes | thy wife nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | eyes | eyes | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | a woman | all eye | something conj | tree rules |
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.
Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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