Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 19

There was only one thing that he could do, and no other man would have thought of that.

Who acts: one thing, thing · What happens: be, do, think · To what, where: one thing, other man

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing, thing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 man	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	aux
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thought	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one thing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	could	thing	one thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		no other man		of that	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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