Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 83

Then the old man strove with them no more, but let them do with him even as they would.

Who acts: old man, sons · What happens: strive, let, do · To what, where: more, sons

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 (old man, sons), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 strove	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strove	nsubj
5	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strove	obl
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 strove	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 strove	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obl
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 would	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 would	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 would	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strive	past	the old man	more	then	with sons = son	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	the old man not said here	sons = son			tree rules
3	do	infinitive	sons = son not said here			with man	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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