Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 44

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Who acts: Change, habit · What happens: not alter, change · To what, where: Nature

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Change, habit), 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	Change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alter	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 habit	case
3	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Change	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 alter	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 alter	advmod
6	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 alter	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 alter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not alter	can	Change of habit	Nature					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient
2	change		habit						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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