Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence THE VERB ARGUMENT BROWSER ARGUMENTFRAMESINTHEHUNGARIANNATIONALCORPUS Bálint Sass [email protected] LanguageTechnologyResearchGroup, ResearchInstituteforLinguistics, HungarianAcademyofSciences 21 November 2014 1/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence PREVIEW Verb Argument Browser – a corpus query tool for investigating argument structure of verbs. original version: forHungarian basedontheoldversionoftheHungarianNationalCorpus notjustarguments allNPandPPdependentsofverbs subjects,objects,complements,adjunctsincluded investigating verbsubcategorizationframes,institutionalizedphrases, lightverbconstructions,idiomaticverbalexpressions, figuresofspeech... commonproperty: verb+someNP/PPdependents examples language independence 2/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence 1 SENTENCE MODEL 2 VERB PHRASE CONSTRUCTIONS AS COLLOCATIONS 3 USAGE & EXAMPLES 4 APPLICATIONS 5 LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE 3/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence 1 SENTENCE MODEL 2 VERB PHRASE CONSTRUCTIONS AS COLLOCATIONS 3 USAGE & EXAMPLES 4 APPLICATIONS 5 LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE 4/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence SENTENCE MODEL Basic unit: simple sentence or clause. A lány váll-at von. the girl shoulder-ACC pull. ’The girl shrugs her shoulder.’ clause = verb + set of NP/PP dependents → verb frame verb=von NOM=lány ACC=váll verb=shrug SUBJ=girl OBJ=shoulder Dependent types: defined syntactically / morphologically in English: word order, prepositions in Hungarian: case markers, postpositions 5/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence SENTENCE MODEL Basic unit: simple sentence or clause. A lány váll-at von. the girl shoulder-ACC pull. ’The girl shrugs her shoulder.’ clause = verb + set of NP/PP dependents → verb frame verb=von NOM=lány ACC=váll verb=shrug SUBJ=girl OBJ=shoulder Dependent types: defined syntactically / morphologically in English: word order, prepositions in Hungarian: case markers, postpositions 5/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence EXAMPLES Az emberek az ido˝járás-ról beszélnek. the people the weather-DEL talk. ’People talk about the weather.’ verb=beszél NOM=ember DEL=ido˝járás verb=talk SUBJ=people ABOUT=weather Péter fél az ismeretlen-to˝l. Peter fear the unknown-ABL. ’Peter fears of the unknown.’ verb=fél NOM=Péter ABL=ismeretlen verb=fear SUBJ=Peter OF=unknown 6/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence EXAMPLES Az emberek az ido˝járás-ról beszélnek. the people the weather-DEL talk. ’People talk about the weather.’ verb=beszél NOM=ember DEL=ido˝járás verb=talk SUBJ=people ABOUT=weather Péter fél az ismeretlen-to˝l. Peter fear the unknown-ABL. ’Peter fears of the unknown.’ verb=fél NOM=Péter ABL=ismeretlen verb=fear SUBJ=Peter OF=unknown 6/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence EXAMPLES Az emberek az ido˝járás-ról beszélnek. the people the weather-DEL talk. ’People talk about the weather.’ verb=beszél NOM=ember DEL=ido˝járás verb=talk SUBJ=people ABOUT=weather Péter fél az ismeretlen-to˝l. Peter fear the unknown-ABL. ’Peter fears of the unknown.’ verb=fél NOM=Péter ABL=ismeretlen verb=fear SUBJ=Peter OF=unknown 6/34 Sentencemodel VCsascoll. Usage&examples Applications Languageindependence FIXED AND FREE DEPENDENTS Hogy jöttek lét-re az elso˝ csillagok? how came existence-SUB the first stars? ’How the first stars came into existence?’ verb=jön SUB=lét NOM=csillag verb=come INTO=existence SUBJ=star fixed dependent: cannot change the content word withoutchangingthemeaningoftheVPC free dependent: can change the content word withoutchangingthemeaningoftheVPC 7/34