GrammarSoft ApS

Theme

The case 'theme' is removed for the subject, if there is no theme-assigning verb, typically a copula, but it may also be other verbs denoting situatedness as 'stand' and 'lie'. These rules are so general, that they do not remove anything even if the theme-assigning is in an embedded sentence. The functionality of this group of rules heavily overlaps with the equivalent group of rules in the 'clean up'- section. I will return to this below.¹³

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# REMOVE %TH

REMOVE (%TH) (0 @SUBJ>) (NOT *1 V-THEME LINK 0 @MV);
REMOVE (%TH) (0 @<SUBJ) (NOT *-1 V-THEME LINK 0 @MV);
REMOVE (%TH) (0 @SUBJ>) (*1 CLB BARRIER VFIN LINK *1 VFIN LINK 
       0 @FS-N< LINK *1 VFIN BARRIER @SUBJ LINK -1 ALL LINK NOT 
       *1 V-THEME BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 @MV);