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title: It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original d… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original documents for themselves. Who acts: variety. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 35

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It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original documents for themselves.

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**Who acts:** variety · **What happens:** be, study · **To what, where:** original documents

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (variety), 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:pg29672:1:35
# text = It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original documents for themselves.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	documents	document	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | variety |  |  |  |  | for professional students; of folk lore | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | to-infinitive |  | the original documents |  |  |  | for documents *= document* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent document=Theme for themselves=Attribute |

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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:** «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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