Graph Theory - Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots - page 187

As in object gapping, the noun gapping parts precede the shared filler. The
degree sequence is 321111. The node represented by the noun berry is shared
by the adnominally used adjectives red, green ,and blue , as indicated by the
three parallel vertical lines. The surface realization shows no empty traversals,
one multiple realization, and no multiple visits. The proplet representation is
as follows:

9.6.5 P ROPLET REPRESENTATION OF NOUN GAPPING

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⎣

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noun: berry
cat: snp
sem: def pl
mdr: red
green
blue
fnc: eat
prn: 34

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⎣

⎤
⎦

⎡
⎣

⎤
⎦

⎡
⎣

⎤
⎦

⎡
⎣

⎤
⎦

⎡
⎣

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noun: Bob
cat: nm
sem: sg
fnc: eat
prn: 34

verb: eat
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: Bob berry
prn: 34

adj: red
cat: adn
sem: pos
mdd: berry
prn: 34

adj: green
cat: adn
sem: pos
mdd: berry
prn: 34

adj: blue
cat: adn
sem: pos
mdd: berry
prn: 34

While the noun gapping construction has a distributive interpretation in the
sense that each berry is either red, green, or blue, the corresponding construc-
tion with an adnominal coordination has a collective interpretation in the sense
that each berry may have all three colors at the same time.

9.6.6 DBS GRAPH ANALYSIS OF ADNOMINAL COORDINATION
Bob ate the red, green, and blue berries.

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

eat

eat

10

1

2

3

Bob berry

Bob berry

4 9

8 7

red green blue

5

red green blue 6

(ii) signature (iv) surface realization

V

1 2 3

the

4 5 6 7−8−9 10

.

Bob ate red green and__blue berries

NN

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