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title: And however beautiful may be thy wife's eyes, still eyes are only ey… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 37

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And however beautiful may be thy wife's eyes, still eyes are only eyes, and a woman is not all eye, but something more.

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**Who acts:** eyes, woman · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** eyes, eye

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:2:37
# text = And however beautiful may be thy wife's eyes, still eyes are only eyes, and a woman is not all eye, but something more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	conj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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