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title: But has her ladyship, in point of fact, an inward temper which she d… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But has her ladyship, in point of fact, an inward temper which she does not reveal, or has she not? Who acts: mistress. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

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But has her ladyship, in point of fact, an inward temper which she does not reveal, or has she not?

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**Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** have, not reveal, not have, point · **To what, where:** ladyship, mistress, fact

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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:pg74064:9:52
# text = But has her ladyship, in point of fact, an inward temper which she does not reveal, or has she not?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ladyship	ladyship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	inward	inward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | mistress's ladyship and a inward temper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladyship=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **reveal** | present · do-support | mistress | mistress's ladyship and a inward temper |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present |  | mistress |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | fact |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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