Verbal system · The tone of voice · Element

The pairs

Real sentences with their rewrites.

The part

What it is

Taken from actual output rather than invented, so that the people who wrote the originals recognise the problem.

A dozen pairs covering the common cases does more than any amount of description.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.