APPENDICES IV/V
PARSING CODE
PARADIGMS
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Appendix IV: Parsing Code

PARSING CODE

1. Cuts:

/ marks the limits of primary words and word groups in S
// stands between words and word groups in apposition
1 marks a secondary cut
/ marks a tertiary cut
() encloses conjunctions
[] encloses sentence connectors
→ = goes with, modifies

2. Arabic numbers: An arabic number is set over the word or head term of the subject, main (finite) verb, and each unit of the predicate, as follows:

1 = word or word group in the structure of subject
2 = main (finite) verb
3 = in predicate: word or word group with head term in nominative case
4 = in predicate: word or word group with head term in accusative case
5 = in predicate: word or word group with head term in dative case
6 = in predicate: word or word group with head term in genitive case

In addition,

A = in predicate: any adverb not included in another word group; a word cluster headed by an adverb
i = in predicate: any infinitive not included in another word group; a word group headed by an infinitive
S (s) = in predicate: any included independent (dependent) sentence
ρ = prefixed to any word or word group initiated by a preposition

3. Parts of speech: Lower case letters are used to designate parts of speech (except for adverbs: upper case):

b = pronoun
d = pronominal adjective
n = noun
a = adjective
g = participle
i = infinitive
p = preposition
A = adverb

A plus sign is added to the basic designation for word clusters headed by a part of speech.

+ = word cluster (e.g. 4n+, 5g+)

4. In the analysis of nominal word clusters,

t = the article in any gender, number, case

5. Adverbs, negatives, conjunctions and particles:

A = adverb
Ν = negative particle
Β = subordinator
C = conjunction
D = connector
Q = question signaling words and word groups
W = wish signaling words and word groups
Ε = exclamation signaling words and word groups
Η = nuance words, sentence modalizers
I = attention getters

6. Additional designations:

Sentence types are marked with roman numerals
Ρ = the passive form of a sentence type, e.g. IIIP
Τ = the transformation
aC = comparative degree of an adjective