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diff --git a/doc/resource.txt b/doc/resource.txt index 34d0e4be7..6ae274c35 100644 --- a/doc/resource.txt +++ b/doc/resource.txt @@ -584,7 +584,6 @@ and an optional tailing vocative ("John", "please"). The richest of the categories below Utterance is ``S``, Sentence. A Sentence is formed from a Clause (``Cl``), by fixing its Tense, Anteriority, and Polarity. -The difference between Sentence and Clause is thus also rather technical. For example, each of the following strings has a distinct syntax tree in the category Sentence: ``` @@ -600,6 +599,9 @@ in the category Sentence: ``` whereas in the category Clause all of them are just different forms of the same tree. +The difference between Sentence and Clause is thus also rather technical. +It may not correspond exactly to any standard usage of the terms +"clause" and "sentence". Figure 1 shows a type-annotated syntax tree of the Text "John walks." and gives an overview of the structural levels. |