NOUNMORPHOLOGY {MoLE}

Interpret nominal morphology

Description

Use noun markers to determine event-role distribution (i.e., who is actor and who is undergoer).

Usage

NOUNMORPHOLOGY(hearerID, analysis)

Arguments

hearerID

Pointer to hearer agent who's developing an analysis

analysis

Analysis of utterance (result of ANALYZE) in which roles have to be determined.

Details

Marker overrules suffix with same host Future work: allow for oblique roles.

Value

Analysis (dataframe) with roles assigned on the basis of nominal markers.

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

INTERPRET, VERBMORPHOLOGY

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
prep=PREPARE(1, proposition, situation)
utterance=PRODUCE(1, prep)
analysis=ANALYZE(2, utterance, situation)
grouping=GROUP(2, analysis)
(analysis=NOUNMORPHOLOGY(2, grouping[[length(grouping)]]))
analysis$role
#repeat if no nounAdposition is identified.