The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 44

Aye! those eyes, with their blue irresistible invitation, would succeed in corrupting sages, where Menaká, Tilottamá[14] and the rest had failed.

Who acts: eyes, Menaká · What happens: succeed, corrupt, fail, invite · To what, where: corrupting sages

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, Menaká), 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	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	13 succeed	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 eyes	det
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 succeed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 invitation	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 invitation	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 invitation	nmod:poss
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 invitation	amod
9	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 invitation	amod
10	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 invitation	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 succeed	aux
13	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sages	case
15	corrupting	corrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sages	amod
16	sages	sage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 succeed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 failed	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 failed	advmod
19	Menaká	Menaká	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 failed	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Tilottamá	punct
21	Tilottamá	Tilottamá	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Menaká	conj
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 14	punct
23	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Tilottamá	appos
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 14	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 failed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rest	det
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 failed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 failed	aux
29	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sages	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	would	that eyes with eyes's blue irresistible invitation	corrupting sages		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in sage=Eventuality
2	corrupt	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fail	past · perfect	Menaká and Tilottamá		the rest nsubj	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	invite		eyes = eye			nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 44