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title: Moreover, to beauty without its guardian, wild beasts are less dange… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, to beauty without its guardian, wild beasts are less dangerous than men with souls through the influence of passion worse than those of beasts. Who acts: wild beasts. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, with its dependency tree
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 41

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Moreover, to beauty without its guardian, wild beasts are less dangerous than men with souls through the influence of passion worse than those of beasts.

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**Who acts:** wild beasts · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beauty

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beasts), 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:pg68641:9:41
# text = Moreover, to beauty without its guardian, wild beasts are less dangerous than men with souls through the influence of passion worse than those of beasts.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
7	guardian	guardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | wild beasts | beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | than men with souls through the influence of passion; beauty *nmod:poss*; dangerous, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | wild beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than those of beasts | 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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