Sentence structure and discourse structure
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Pavlína Jínová
Abstract
The present contribution represents the first step in comparing the nature of syntactico-semantic relations present in the sentence structure to their equivalents in the discourse structure. The study is carried out on the basis of Czech manually annotated material collected in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). According to the analysis of the underlying syntactic structure of a sentence (tectogrammatics) in the PDT, we distinguish various types of relations that can be expressed both within a single sentence (i.e. in a tree) and in a larger text, beyond the sentence boundary (between trees). We suggest that, on the one hand, semantic nature of each type of these relations corresponds both within a sentence and in a larger text (i.e. a causal relation remains a causal relation) but, on the other hand, according to the semantic properties of the relations, their distribution in a sentence or between sentences is very diverse. In this study, this observation is analyzed in detail for three cases (relations of condition, specification and opposition) and further supported by similar behaviour of the English data from the Penn Discourse Treebank.
Abstract
The present contribution represents the first step in comparing the nature of syntactico-semantic relations present in the sentence structure to their equivalents in the discourse structure. The study is carried out on the basis of Czech manually annotated material collected in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). According to the analysis of the underlying syntactic structure of a sentence (tectogrammatics) in the PDT, we distinguish various types of relations that can be expressed both within a single sentence (i.e. in a tree) and in a larger text, beyond the sentence boundary (between trees). We suggest that, on the one hand, semantic nature of each type of these relations corresponds both within a sentence and in a larger text (i.e. a causal relation remains a causal relation) but, on the other hand, according to the semantic properties of the relations, their distribution in a sentence or between sentences is very diverse. In this study, this observation is analyzed in detail for three cases (relations of condition, specification and opposition) and further supported by similar behaviour of the English data from the Penn Discourse Treebank.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
