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Formemes
In this text we present the main principles of the tectogrammatical representation applied to English and use English examples, but features that are not language-specific to English apply to the Czech tectogrammatical representation as well.
The formemes, as mentioned earlier, are a technical shortcut that facilitates searching the corpus across the tectogrammatical and the analytical layers, by specifying the query using tectogrammatical attributes only. A formeme can be regarded as a property of a t-node which specifies in which morphosyntactic form this t-node is realized in the surface sentence shape. The set of formeme values compatible with a given t-node is limited by its semantic part of speech. The formemes are particularly useful whenever you want to specify the lemma of a preposition or limit your search to just one part of speech in forms/lemmas whose part of speech is ambiguous. The formeme attribute is obtained automatically.
Set of formemes of the English part of PCEDT 2.0:
- n:subj: semantic noun in subject position
- n:preposition+X: semantic noun with a preposition (i.e. for)
- n:poss: possessive form of a semantic noun
- n:obj1: semantic noun in the position of a direct object
- n:obj2: semantic noun in the position of a recipient ("dative") object
- n:adv: semantic noun in adverbial position, such as Last year we met at a different restaurant.
- n:attr: semantic noun in attributive position, such as power plant
- n:???: semantic noun whose parent on the tectogrammatical layer is not represented on the analytical layer
- adj:attr: semantic adjective in attributive position
- adj:compl: semantic adjective as verbal complement
- v:inf: semantic verb as infinitive
- v:subordinator+ger: semantic verb as gerund, introduced by a subordinator (insert any)
- v:attr: semantic verb modifying a noun
- v:ger: semantic verb as gerund
- v:subordinator+fin: finite verb as head of a subordinate clause introduced by a subordinator (insert the given subordinator when searching)
- v:subordinator+inf: infinitive as head of a subordinate clause introduced by a subordinator (insert the given subordinator when searching)
- v:rc: finite verb form as a head of a relative clause
- v:fin: other finite verb forms, e.g. in a matrix clause
Set of formemes of the Czech part of PCEDT 2.0:
- drop: node is not represented on the analytical layer
- n:attr: semantic noun in attributive position, such as sklenice vody (glass [of] water)
- n:preposition+case: semantic noun with a preposition and case (i.e. n:v+6)
- n:case: adjectives hanging directly under the root – nominal usage
- adj:poss: possesive adjective
- adj:preposition+poss: possesive adjective with a preposition
- adj:case: verbal complements
- adj:attr: semantic adjective in attributive position
- adv: adverbs derived from adjectives
- v:inf: semantic verb as infinitive
- v:subordinator+inf: infinitive as head of a subordinate clause introduced by a subordinator (insert the given subordinator when searching)
- v:fin: other finite verb forms, e.g. in a matrix clause
- v:subordinator+fin: finite verb as head of a subordinate clause introduced by a subordinator (insert the given subordinator when searching)
- v:rc: finite verb form as a head of a relative clause
- v:subordinator+rc: finite verb form as a head of a relative subordinate clause introduced by a subordinator (insert the given subordinator when searching)