Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 105
In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.
Who acts: government · What happens: change, name · To what, where: master
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 change | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 change | det |
| 3 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 government | case |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 change | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 change | amod |
| 8 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | compound |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | government | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 2 | name | panniers's master | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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