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The GF Resource Grammar Library
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The outermost linguistic structure is Text. Texts are composed
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from Phrases followed by punctuation marks - either of ".", "?" or
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"!! (with their proper variants in Spanish and Arabic). Here is an
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example of a text.
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John walks. Why? He doesn't want to sleep!
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Phrases are mostly built from Utterances, which in turn are
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declarative sentences, questions, or imperatives - but there
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are also "one-word utterances" consisting of noun phrases
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or other subsentential phrases. Some Phrases are more primitive,
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for instance "yes" and "no". Here are some examples of Phrases.
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yes
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come on, John
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but John walks
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give me the stick please
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don't you know that he is sleeping
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a glass of wine
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a glass of wine please
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There is no connection between the punctuation marks and the
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types of utterances. This reflects the fact that the punctuation
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mark in a real text is selected as a function of the speech act
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rather than the grammatical form of an utterance. The following
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text is thus well-formed.
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John walks. John walks? John walks!
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