MoLE (version 1.0.1)

NOUNMORPHOLOGY: 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.

Value

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

Details

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

See Also

INTERPRET, VERBMORPHOLOGY

Examples

# NOT RUN {
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.
# }