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description: There is boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals, between mankind and the brute creation, and, although there are certain conventional rules which must always be observed, they are not those which are enforced by any people known to anthropologists. Who acts: boundless freedom
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 23

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There is boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals, between mankind and the brute creation, and, although there are certain conventional rules which must always be observed, they are not those which are enforced by any people known to anthropologists.

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**Who acts:** boundless freedom, certain conventional rules, people · **What happens:** be, observe, not enforce, know · **To what, where:** certain conventional rules, rules, people

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (boundless freedom, certain conventional rules, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:11:23
# text = There is boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals, between mankind and the brute creation, and, although there are certain conventional rules which must always be observed, they are not those which are enforced by any people known to anthropologists.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	immortals	immortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brute	brute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
24	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	enforced	enforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	anthropologists	anthropologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals and mankind and the brute creation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | certain conventional rules |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **observe** | must · passive |  | certain conventional rules |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **enforce** | present · passive | any people | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  | any people *not said here* |  |  |  | to anthropologists | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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