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title: Aye! those eyes, with their blue irresistible invitation, would succ… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 44

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

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

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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, Menaká), 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:pg68641:2:44
# text = Aye! those eyes, with their blue irresistible invitation, would succeed in corrupting sages, where Menaká, Tilottamá[14] and the rest had failed.
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	corrupting	corrupt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
19	Menaká	Menaká	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Tilottamá	Tilottamá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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