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title: What is to be, must be. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What is to be, must be. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 41

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What is to be, must be.

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**What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg29672:9:41
# text = What is to be, must be.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must · present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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