SELECTACTOR {MoLE} | R Documentation |
Find actor expression
Description
Select best expression for actor/undergoer/verb participant in the event to be described
Usage
SELECTACTOR(speakerID, situation, verb = NULL)
Arguments
speakerID |
Pointer to speaker agent |
situation |
Situation in which event to be described is situated |
verb |
Pointer to verb lexeme used in the utterance to be formulated (if present already) |
Details
Verb is relevant because of collostruction frequencies: some agents are more likely to be mentioned given certain verbs (cf. CANDIDATEORDER
). Works other way around for SELECTVERB
.
Value
A dataframe with the lexical representation of the agent/undergoer/verb.
Author(s)
Sander Lestrade
See Also
PROPOSITION
Examples
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
situation[situation$target==1,]
SELECTACTOR(1, situation)
SELECTVERB(1, situation)
if(!is.na(situation[situation$target==1,]$U1)){
SELECTUNDERGOER(1, situation)
}
[Package MoLE version 1.0.1 Index]