Graph Theory - Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots - page 184

9.5.4 V ERB GAPPING CONTENT AS A SET OF PROPLETS

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verb: eat
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: Bob apple
Jim pear
Bill peach
prn: 31

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noun: Bob
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

noun: apple
cat: snp
sem: indef sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

noun: Jim
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

noun: pear
cat: snp
sem: indef sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

noun: Bill
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

noun: peach
cat: snp
sem: indef sg
fnc: eat
prn: 31

The sharing of the verb is expressed by listing the three subject-object pairs in
the arg attribute of the verb proplet and the verb in the fnc slot of the nouns.
The analysis of verb gapping in terms of functor-argument rather than coor-
dination may be applied to all forms of gapping, for example, subject gapping:

9.5.5 DBS GRAPH ANALYSIS OF SUBJECT GAPPING IN 9.5.1

(i) semantic relations graph (SRG) (iii) numbered arcs graph (NAG)

read read

11

walk walk

10

paper 7 paper

6

12

eat

eat 9

8 5 dog

dog

4

1

2

3

apple

Bob Bob apple

(iii) signature

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V

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V

N

N N

(iv) surface realization

1 2 3

4−1−5 6

7−8−9 10 11−12−2

an_apple the_dog and_read the_paper
The degree sequence is 3222111. In contradistinction to verb gapping 9.5.3
and object gapping 9.6.1, subject gapping 9.5.5 shows multiple visits, namely
4-1-5 and 11-12-2.
The graphical analysis 9.5.5 requires a proplet representation different from
the coordination-oriented solutionofNLC'06,Sect.8.4,aswell:

Bob ate walked

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