EHL – CorpusStudio

Erwin R. Komen

October 2010

1. Task

Today’s task:

 How does SVO versus SOV change in sub clauses?

Our approach:

Step 1: Make a corpus research project

            Fill in the “General” tab.

Step 2: Define queries in the “Query” tab.

Name	Task
subS+O+V	subclauses with S,O,V in any order
subS-O-V	subclauses with order S…O…V
subS-V-O	subclauses with order S…V…O

Step 3: Put the queries in order using the “Construction” tab.

Step 4: Verify the order using the “Hierarchy” tab.

Step 5: Run the queries using Tools/ExecuteConstructor (F10)

Step 6: Look at the results in the “Results” tab.

Step 7: Copy the results to Excel, and make a graph.

2. Labels

Clause level labels

Constituent	Examples	Explanation
IP	IP-MAT IP-SUB IP-INF	Main clause Subclause Infinitival clause
CP	CP-THT CP-REL CP-CLF CP-ADV	That clause Relative clause Cleft Adverbial clause

Clause constituent labels

Constituent	Examples	Explanation
NP	NP NP-SBJ NP-NOM NP-GEN NP-OB1 NP-OB2 NP-LFD NP-MSR	Undetermined NP Subject Nominative NP Genitive case NP Direct object Indirect object Left dislocated NP Measure NP
PP	PP PP-LFD PP-RSP	Any PP Left dislocated PP Resumptive PP
ADVP	ADVP	Adverbial phrase

Verb labels

Verb type	Examples	Explanation
to be	BED BEP BE	Past tense (“was”, “were”) Present tense (“is”, “are”) Infinitive
to have	HVD HVP HV	Past tense Present tense Infinitive
modals	MDD MDP MD	Past tense Present tense Infinitive
other verbs	VBD VBP VB	Past tense Present tense Infinitive

All label definitions can be found under “Syntactic Labels” at:

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YCOE/YcoeHome.htm

3. Query commands

Type	Examples	Explanation
Domination	x iDoms y x iDomsOnly y x iDomsFirst y x Dominates y	y is a child of x y is the only child of x y is the first child of x y is a descendant of x
Order	x iPrecedes y x iFollows y x Precedes y	y is the immediately following sibling of x y is the immediately preceding sibling of x y is a sibling following on x (but others may intervene)

Further query commands can be found at:

http://corpussearch.sourceforge.net/CS-manual/SearchFunctions.html

4. Definition file

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// Name:     OE+MEU.def

// Goal:     Combined definitions for OE and ME processing

// History:

// 10-07-2009 ERK   Combined from Ans van Kemenade

// 18-12-2009 ERK   Added definition of "contrast"

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// Definitions of different IP categories

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finiteIP: IP-MAT*|IP-SUB*

matrixIP: IP-MAT*

subIP: IP-SUB*

anyCP: CP|CP-*

anyXP: *P-*|*P

negation: NEG-*|NEG

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// Definitions of verbal categories

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nonfiniteverb: *BE|*BAG*|*BEN*|*HV|*HVG*|*HVN*|*AX|*AXG*|*AXN*|*VB|*VAG*|*VAN*| VBN*|VBG*|HAN*|HAG*

finiteverb: BEI|BEP*|BED*|UTP|*HVI|*HVP*|*HVD*|*AXI|*AXP*|*AXD*|*MD|VBI|*VBP*| *VBD*|*DOI|*DOP*|*DOD*|NEG+BEI|NEG+BEP*|NEG+BED*|NEG+AXI|NEG+*AXP*|NEG+*AXD*| NEG+*MD|NEG+VBI|NEG+*VBP*|NEG+*VBD

unaccfiniteverb:BEI|BEP*|BED*|NEG+BEI|NEG+BEP*|NEG+BED*

finite_BE: BEP*|BED*|NEG+BEP*|NEG+BED*

progressive: *ing*|*yng*

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// Definitions of different AP categories

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anypp: PP|PP-*

someap: ADVP-*|ADJP*

timeap: ADVP-TMP*

then_word: then|+ten|+ta|+tonne|than

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// Definitions of different NP categories

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subjectoe: NP-NOM|NP-NOM-#|NP-NOM-RSP

subject: $subjectoe|NP-SBJ*

badsubject: EX

timenp: NP*TMP

anynp: NP|NP-*

leftdisnp: NP-*LFD*

resumpnp: NP-*RSP*

posspro: PRO$|PRO$^*

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// The following definition of an object NP excludes from the list e.g.

//   NP-DAT-TMP, NP-GEN-TMP from the list

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object: NP-OB*|NP-DAT|NP-DAT-[A-SU-Z]*|NP-GEN|NP-GEN-[A-SU-Z]*|NP-ACC|
NP-ACC-[A-SU-Z]*

argument: $object|$subjectoe

objectorpp: $object|PP-*

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// Definitions of contents of NPs

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noun: N-*|NR*|FW|*Q*|D*

dem: D^*|D-*|D

pronoun: PRO^N|PRO^A|PRO^G|PRO^D|PRO|DPRO^N|DPRO^A|DPRO^G|DPRO^D|PRO-*

nonpronominal: D*|ADJ*|N*|*Q*|NUM*|FP|FW|CP*|PTP*|V*|RP+V*|CONJ*

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// Default values for ignore_nodes and ignore_words

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// ignore_nodes: COMMENT|CODE|ID|LB|'|\"|,|E_S|.|/|RMV:*

// ignore_words: COMMENT|CODE|ID|LB|'|\"|,|E_S|.|/|RMV:*|0|\**

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