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title: Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Transcriber’s Notes:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Transcriber’s Notes:, sentence 3

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Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.

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**What happens:** standardize · **To what, where:** Inconsistencies

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Transcriber’s Notes:. 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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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:18:3
# text = Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
1	Inconsistencies	inconsistency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hyphenation	hyphenation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	standardized	standardize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **standardize** | present · perfect · passive |  | Inconsistencies in hyphenation |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:** «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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