Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: cltype

Feature group	Feature type	Data type	Available for node types	Used by viewtypes
`Syntactic`	`Node`	`String`	`sentence` `clause` `wg`	`syntax-view` `wg-view`

Feature description

This feature provides classification for different types of clauses, specifically focusing on verbless, verb-elided, and minor clauses.

All clauses without explicit value for this this feature are to be regarded verbal clauses.

Feature values

Frequency for sentence nodes:

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	Verbal clause type	19703
`Verbless`	Verbless clause type	77
`VerbElided`	Verb-elided clause type	47
`Minor`	Minor clause type	1

Frequency for clause nodes:

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	Verbal clause type	30814
`Verbless`	Verbless clause type	1003
`VerbElided`	Verb-elided clause type	884
`Minor`	Minor clause type	831

Frequency for wg nodes:

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	Verbal clause type	106868
`Verbless`	Verbless clause type	1050
`VerbElided`	Verb-elided clause type	961
`Minor`	Minor clause type	832

Note

To select all verbal clauses for node type sentence, the following snippet can be used:

Query = '''
sentence 
   cltype#1
'''
Results = A.search(Query)

Additional information

The following description of the various clause types is taken from : Andi Wu and Randall K. Tan, Documentation for the MACULA Greek Treebank for the Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament (2022),7. Availabe at MACULA Greek Treebank for the Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament.pdf.

Verbal Clause: The clause represents a grammatical unit that expresses a proposition. Verbal clauses are the most typical form of the clause, with an explicit verbal element as the head of the clause (i.e., the constituent on which all other clause constituents are dependent).
Verbless Clause: Verbless clauses are relational clauses of identification or attribution without an explicit copula verb. Verbless clauses typically consist of a core of a Subject and a Predicate, with additional Adverbial clause constituents possible.
Verb Elided Clause: Verb elided clauses are clauses that imply the carrying over of Verbal Function (usually from the previous clause). They are clauses without Verbal Function that are not clauses of identification or attribution.
Minor Clause: Minor clauses are clauses without any predication (no Verbal Function or Predicate Function), i.e., contain no assertions or propositions. They function interpersonally (vocative direct address or interjection to gain attention/alert) or textually (left-dislocated focus noun phrases, e.g. as for the game, I did not get to watch it.).

Source description

This feature is derived from the XML attribute cltype of the tag wg (wordgroup).

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