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title: In the matter of details, the illustrations are believed to be corre… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In the matter of details, the illustrations are believed to be correct in every particular. Who acts: details. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

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In the matter of details, the illustrations are believed to be correct in every particular.

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**Who acts:** details · **What happens:** believe, be, matter · **To what, where:** illustrations, matter

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (details), 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:pg74064:2:90
# text = In the matter of details, the illustrations are believed to be correct in every particular.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · passive |  | the illustrations |  | the matter of details |  | in every particular | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **matter** |  | details |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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