Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 11

But Diogenes did not come; and he was the only man for whose o-pin-ions Alexander cared.

Who acts: Diogenes, Alexander · What happens: not come, be, care · To what, where: only man, o pin ions

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diogenes, Alexander), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
2	Diogenes	Diogenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	19 ions	case
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 ions	nmod:poss
15	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ions	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 o	punct
17	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ions	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 pin	punct
19	ions	ion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 man	nmod
20	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cared	nsubj
21	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ions	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	Diogenes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Diogenes	the only man	for the only man's o pin ions	tree rules
3	care	past	Alexander	the only man's o pin ions not said here		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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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