Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 75

There was quite a battle among them as to which of them should _not_ keep their old father.

Who acts: battle · What happens: be, not _, keep · To what, where: old father

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), 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	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	5 battle	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battle	det
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 battle	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 which	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 _	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 _	obl
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 _	aux
14	_	_	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 battle	parataxis
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 _	advmod
16	_	_	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 _	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 father	amod
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	quite battle among sons		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not _	should				as quite battle among sons; of sons = son	tree rules
3	keep	infinitive		sons's old father			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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