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The degree sequence is the same as in subject gapping (9.5.5), namely 3222111.
Again, the revised graphical analysis of object gapping requires a proplet
representation different from the coordination-oriented approach of NLC'06,
Sect. 8.6:
9.6.3 P ROPLET REPRESENTATION OF OBJECT GAPPING
noun: apple
cat: snp
sem: def sg
fnc: buy
peel
eat
prn: 33
noun: Bob
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: buy
prn: 33
verb: buy
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: Bob apple
prn: 33
noun: Jim
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: peel
prn: 33
verb: peel
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: Jim apple
prn: 33
noun: Bill
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: eat
prn: 33
verb: eat
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: Bill apple
prn: 33
Here the shared item is the object apple , which lists the three verbs in its fnc
slot, just as the three verbs list apple in the second position of their arg slot.
While subject, verb, and object gapping are sentential in nature (though in-
trapropositional), noun gapping applies to the adnominal modifiers inside a
phrasal noun, 15 as in the following example:
9.6.4 DBS GRAPH ANALYSIS OF NOUN GAPPING
Bob ate the red #, the green #, and the blue berries.
(i) semantic relations graph (SRG)
(iii) numbered arcs graph (NAG)
eat
eat
10
1
2
3
Bob
berry
Bob
berry
45 67 89
red
green
blue
red
green
blue
(ii) signature
V
NN
AAA
(iv) surface realization
1
2
3
the
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
.
Bob
ate
red
the
green
and_the
blue
berries
 
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