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title: Or is it solely because I have performed these duties well that her… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Or is it solely because I have performed these duties well that her ladyship does not reveal an inward temper which, in point of fact, she does possess;--not because she does not possess it? Who acts: temper, I, ladyship, mistress. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, O
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

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Or is it solely because I have performed these duties well that her ladyship does not reveal an inward temper which, in point of fact, she does possess;--not because she does not possess it?

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**Who acts:** temper, I, ladyship, mistress · **What happens:** be, perform, well, not reveal, possess, not possess · **To what, where:** duties, inward temper, point, temper, 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 (temper, I, ladyship, 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:pg74064:9:53
# text = Or is it solely because I have performed these duties well that her ladyship does not reveal an inward temper which, in point of fact, she does possess;--not because she does not possess it?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	well	well	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ladyship	ladyship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	inward	inward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | temper |  |  |  |  | solely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | present · perfect | I | this duties |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme |
| 3 | **well** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **reveal** | present · do-support | mistress's ladyship | a inward temper |  | point of fact |  | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **possess** | present · do-support | mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **not** **possess** | present · do-support | mistress | temper |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 7 | **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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