Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 22

But it did not make him angry; it only made him admire the strange man all the more.

Who acts: answer, Diogenes · What happens: not make, make, admire · To what, where: Diogenes, strange man

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 (answer, Diogenes), 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 make	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 admire	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 more	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 more	det
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 admire	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not make	past · do-support	answer	Diogenes	angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
2	make	past	answer	Diogenes		tree rules
3	admire	infinitive	Diogenes not said here	the strange man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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