Chapter 3. Tectogrammatical lemma (t-lemma)

Tectogrammatical lemma, t-lemma in the sequel, is one of the attributes of a tectogrammatical node (the t_lemma attribute); it represents the lexical content of the node.

The value of the t_lemma attribute can be:

  1. the basic (default) form of the word from which the node got its lexical meaning (see Section 1, “Basic form of the word”).

    In case of synonymy, the t-lemma is the basic form of one of the variants (the so called representative t-lemma),

  2. the basic form of the word from which the word represented by the node was derived (see Section 2, “T-lemma of derived expressions (representing derivation in tectogrammatical trees)”),

  3. a so called complex t-lemma, consisting of more words (see Section 3, “Complex t-lemma”),

  4. an “artificial” value, a so called t-lemma substitute (see Section 4, “T-lemma substitute”).