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Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: tense

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

Feature description

The tense feature indicates the grammatical tense of a verb (word node with feature cls=verb). This feature helps in identifying the time frame of the action described by the verb, such as past, present, or future.

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

Feature values

Value	Explanation	Frequency
aorist	Describing a simple action in the past	11803
imperfect	Describing an ongoing action in the past	1689
perfect	Describing a completed action in the present time	1572
pluperfect	Describing a completed action in the past	88
present	Describing an ongoing action in the present time	11579
future	Describing a simple or ongoing action in the future	1626
<empty>	Empty for any wordtype other than a verb	109422

Note

The ‘future perfect’ tense (describing a completed action in the future) is not found in the text.

The following features provide ready access to eight morphological properties:

• person: gramatical person
• tense: gramatical tense of the verb
• voice: Gramatical voice of the verb
• mood: gramatical mood of a verb
• case: gramatical case
• number: gramatical number
• gender: gramatical gender
• degree: indicates comparative or superlative adjective

The feature morph provides the morphological tag, which condenses various details such as part of speech and the above listed morphological characteristics.

Source description

Based on the optional XML attribute tense of tag w (word).

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