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Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: role

Feature group	Feature type	Data type	Available for node types	Used by viewtypes
Syntactical	Node	String	word wg group sentence clause phrase	wg-view

Feature description

The role feature indicates the syntactic role of a word or word group within a sentence. It provides information about whether the word or group is acting as a subject, object, verb, etc.

This feature preserves the source XML nomenclature and is designed to be used in the wg-view.

Feature values

For word or wg (wordgroup) nodes:

Value	Description	Frequency
o	Object	26988
s	Subject	22336
adv	Adverbial	43154
v	Verb	50344
p	Predicate	7348
io	Indirect object	5316
vc	Verbal copula	5186
apposition	Apposition	4878
aux	Auxiliar	2112
o2	Second object	718

Mapping between role and feature ‘function’

feature role (wg-view)	role description	feature function (syntax-view)
io	Indirect object	Cmpl
o	Object	Objc
o2	Secondary object	Objc
p	Predicate	PreD
s	Subject	Subj
vc (wg nodes)	Verbal copula	Pred
v (word nodes)	Verb	Pred
apposition	Apposition	Appo

See also

The matching feature for use in the syntax-view is function.

Note

See also the description in MACULA Greek Treebank for the Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament.pdf on page 4 and 5 (section 2.2. Syntactic Categories at Word Level: Part of Speech Labels).

Source description

This feature is derived from the XML attribute role of the tag w (word) or wg (wordgroup).

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