--- title: It is solely because I have performed these duties well that her lad… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: It is 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;--it is not because she does not possess it. Who acts: duties, ladyship, point. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/) / 68 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 68 It is 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;--it is not because she does not possess it. **Who acts:** duties, ladyship, point · **What happens:** be, well, not reveal, possess, not be, point · **To what, where:** temper, inward temper, fact 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 (duties, ladyship, point), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:9:73 # text = It is 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;--it is not because she does not possess it. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 solely solely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 well well VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ladyship ladyship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 reveal reveal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 inward inward NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:outer _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · perfect · passive | | temper | | | | I *nsubj*; perform, solely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **well** | past | this duties | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **reveal** | present · do-support | Blackie's ladyship | a inward temper | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Topic | | 4 | **possess** | present · do-support | point of fact | a inward temper | | | | Blackie *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present · do-support | point | | | | | Blackie *nsubj*; temper *obj*; possess *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **point** | | | fact | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/)