[CWB] Sketch Grammars and macros

Aleksandar Trklja aleksandar.trklja at univie.ac.at
Fri Jan 31 08:14:59 CET 2020


Dear Andrew,

Many thanks for your suggestions! This works very well.

I look forward to the new feature and to the Ziggurat in general.

Best wishes
A



On 29.01.20 18:31, Hardie, Andrew wrote:
>
> Hi Aleks,
>
> Yes, and it’s the same way – see 
> http://cwb.sourceforge.net/files/CQP_Tutorial/node25.html
>
> though you mind find it easier to use, e.g. /node: coll:/ than numbers.
>
> Or, alternative, you can use the target / keyword anchor points. 
> http://cwb.sourceforge.net/files/CQP_Tutorial/node19.html
>
> By the way, syntactic collocates is something I’ve wanted to add to 
> CQPweb for a while. I have put it on hold for the moment because it 
> will be easier with the Ziggurat engine available because then 
> dependency parser output will be indexable.
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
> *From:*cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it <cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it> *On 
> Behalf Of *Aleksandar Trklja
> *Sent:* 29 January 2020 16:37
> *To:* CWB at sslmit.unibo.it
> *Subject:* [CWB] Sketch Grammars and macros
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been trying to create a macro that can classify collocates in 
> terms of their syntactic functions (i.e. subject, direct, indirect 
> object) - something similar to WordSketch in SE. SE uses numbers to 
> mark specific functions.
>
> In the following example "2:" indicates that the final noun in this 
> query serves as the head of the object noun phrase.
>
> 1:"VB.?" [tag="DT|PRP$"]{0,1} "JJ.?"{0,3} "NN.*"{0,2} 2:"NN.*"
>
> Here is another example with an explanation from SE.
>
>   2:"NN.*" [tag="RB"|tag="VM"]{0,4} [lempos="be-v"] 1:"VBN"
> Here the verb in the passive construction (that is, a past participle following the verb “be”) is again marked as the keyword
> with the prefix “1:”. The subject is marked with the prefix “2:” and is  thus taken to be the underlying object of the verb. Between the subject  and the verb “be” we allow the possibility of a string of adverbs (“RB”)  and/or modal verbs (“VM”).
>
> Is there a way in CQP macros to mark similar function - for example a 
> noun as a head of an object noun phrase?
>
> Thanks for help!
>
> Aleks
>
>
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