Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 38

His proposition was received with shouts by his loyal cavaliers; not one of whom but was ready to lay down his life in the service of his commander.

Who acts: city · What happens: receive, shout, be, lay down, propose, service · To what, where: proposition, life, service, commander

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 proposition	nmod:poss
2	proposition	proposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 received	aux:pass
4	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 shouts	case
6	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 received	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 cavaliers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cavaliers	nmod:poss
9	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cavaliers	amod
10	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shouts	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 received	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 one	nmod
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 ready	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 whom	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lay	mark
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ready	xcomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 lay	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 service	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 service	det
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 commander	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 commander	nmod:poss
29	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 service	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past · passive		city's proposition		one conj	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	shout speech: express	present				by city's loyal cavaliers	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				ready property	tree rules
4	lay down	to-infinitive		city's life	the service of city's commander		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in service=Destination
5	propose		city				nom proposition «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	service			city's commander			nom service «act 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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 38