The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 43

Could they unite to form the very body of the god of love, yet the eyes of Anushayiní, alone, would, like the eye of the enemy of Kaudarpa[13], reduce them to ashes.

Who acts: fascinations · What happens: unite, form, reduce · To what, where: body, fascinations, ashes

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 (fascinations), 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 unite	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unite	nsubj
3	unite	unite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 form	mark
5	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unite	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 body	advmod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 god	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 god	det
11	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 love	case
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 god	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	23 would	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eyes	det
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 would	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Anushayiní	case
19	Anushayiní	Anushayiní	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 eyes	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 eyes	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 unite	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eye	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 eye	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eye	det
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unite	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 enemy	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 enemy	det
30	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eye	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Kaudarpa	case
32	Kaudarpa	Kaudarpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 enemy	nmod
33	[	[	PUNCT	_	34 13	punct
34	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 Kaudarpa	appos
35	]	]	PUNCT	_	34 13	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reduce	punct
37	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unite	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reduce	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 ashes	case
40	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 reduce	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unite	could	fascinations = fascination		like the eye of the enemy of Kaudarpa	tree rules
2	form	to-infinitive	fascinations = fascination not said here	the body of the god of love		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
3	reduce	infinitive	fascinations = fascination not said here	fascinations = fascination	to ashes goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Patient to ash=Goal

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 43