The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 41
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 · What happens: be · To what, where: beauty
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.
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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 beauty | case |
| 4 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moreover | obl |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 dangerous | mark |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dangerous | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dangerous | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangerous | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | cop |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 dangerous | advmod |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beauty | acl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangerous | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 souls | case |
| 17 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 men | nmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 influence | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 influence | det |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 souls | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 passion | case |
| 22 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 influence | nmod |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 dangerous | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 those | case |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 worse | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 beasts | case |
| 27 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 those | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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