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Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: discontinuous

Feature group	Feature type	Data type	Available for node types	Used by viewtypes
Syntactic	Node	Integer	word subphrase phrase	syntax-view wg-view

Feature description

The discontinuous feature is set to 1 if the word is out of sequence in the XML source data in relation to the running text. This feature helps identify words that are repositioned due to the limitations of XML structure, which cannot accommodate overlapping structures.

This feature is also populated for phrase or subphrase, but only if they consist of just one word node.

Feature values

Frequency for nodetype word (used in wg-view and syntax-view):

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	No discontinuation of this word node	-
1	Discontinuation of this word node	6034

Frequency for nodetype subphrase (used in syntax-view):

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	No discontinuation of this subphrase node	-
1	Discontinuation of this subphrase node	6034

Frequency for nodetype phrase (used in syntax-view):

value	description	Frequency
<empty>	No discontinuation of this phrase node	-
1	Discontinuation of this phrase node	645

Notes

This feature functions as a pseudo-boolean variable. To find all phrases without a discontinues words (i.e. phrases that do not contain postpositive conjunctions), use the following snippet:

Query = '''
phrase 
   discontinuous#1
'''
Results = A.search(Query)

Replace the expression ‘#1’ with ‘=1’ to find all phrased that do containing postpositive conjunctions.

In Ancient Greek, postpositive conjunctions such as δέ and γάρ commonly occupy the second position in a clause or subclause, immediately following the first significant word. This syntactic placement not only organizes the structure of sentences but also subtly influences the meaning and rhythm of the text. Given that the source data was represented using an XML file structure, which cannot accommodate overlapping structures, these conjunctions had to be repositioned in the LowFat tree representation.

The following image compares the handling of these postpositive conjunctions in Text-Fabric and the Lowfat Syntax Tree Browser. Note the asterisk behind the γάρ in the Lowfat Syntax Tree Browser, indicating this word is out of sequence in respect to the surface text.

Source description

This feature is derived from the optional XML attribute discontinuous of the tag w (word).

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