FUNCTIONfun.spa.complemento-circunstancial
complemento circunstancial
The clause role adding a circumstance such as time, place, manner, instrument or cause, which no verb requires and which can be removed leaving a complete clause.
The adjunct is the one clause role defined by what the verb does not do. Every other role in the clause is there because some verb requires it; this one is available to every verb and required by none, which is why a clause may carry several at once and why they may be stacked in more than one order. Its fillers are of several kinds, since an adverb, a phrase headed by a preposition and a bare phrase naming a time can all fill it, and this is the only role that admits a bare adverb. Removability is the test, and it is a test about the clause rather than about the sentence: dropping the phrase may leave the clause saying less than the speaker meant while leaving it grammatical, and that is exactly the outcome that identifies the role. The residue the test leaves is the set of verbs whose meaning makes a circumstance feel obligatory, where a place phrase looks required and is not, and those cases belong with the governed complement rather than here.
- status
status documentedasserted, and the sources agree- provenance
provenance authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles- derivation status
derivation_status unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything- salience
salience - No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
- aliases
aliases - metalanguageadjunct
- sources
sources - SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)
src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1 - SOURCEA New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)
src.butt-benjaminno page in v1
- SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)
The level it operates at
function.levelA function is a role something plays. This is the size of the thing whose structure supplies the role.
- level
level clauseit is a role inside a clause, filled by a phrase
Confusable with
function.confusableObjects a reader is likely to mix up with this one, and the difference that separates them. The edge is symmetric and stored once, so this renders on both objects' pages from the one statement.
what tells them apartThe same preposition heads adjuncts of cause and of route, so the head does not separate them. A phrase headed by por is in this role only when the clause has demoted the acting participant from subject and the phrase names that participant. Otherwise it names a circumstance, and it can be removed without leaving the clause looking like it has lost an argument.
what tells them apartBoth are phrases headed by a preposition, and nothing in their shape separates them. Two tests do. The preposition here is fixed by the verb and cannot be exchanged, while an adjunct's preposition is chosen for the circumstance it names and can be exchanged for another that names a different one. And this role cannot be dropped without leaving the clause incomplete, while an adjunct can always be dropped.
Everything joined to this object
One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.
What this object is a kind of
Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.
- objects
- 1
- places drawn
- 1
- multi-parent
- None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
The clause role adding a circumstance such as time, place, manner, instrument or cause, which no verb requires and which can be removed leaving a complete clause.
Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.
Fan-out per dimension
A4One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.
- case13 values
- mood8 values
- voice8 values
- aspect7 values
- aktionsart6 values
- number6 values
- person6 values
- tense6 values
- comparison4 values
- evidentiality4 values
- gender4 values
- politeness4 values
- valency4 values
- animacy3 values
- definiteness3 values
- deixis3 values
- finiteness2 values
- information structure2 values
- interrogativity2 values
- polarity2 values
- switch-reference2 values
What kinds of this object there are
Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.
- objects
- 1
- places drawn
- 1
- multi-parent
- None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
The clause role adding a circumstance such as time, place, manner, instrument or cause, which no verb requires and which can be removed leaving a complete clause.
Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.
selects
edges.selectsthe parent requires this elsewhere
these require this object elsewhere
conditionA phrase naming the stretch of time the accumulation covers is expected, and its absence leaves the starting point to be recovered from the context.
derives
edges.derivesthe why-chain
derived by
roleconclusion