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It is my understanding that if clauses are coordinated and share the same elements, those can be omitted in the first and appear fully in the last such as:
I keep the girl away from the fire and you keep the cat away from the water.
In Middle Persian, a verb-final language, this would result in:
I the girl from the fire and you the cat from the water away keep.
UD only restores the verb here, which is counter-intuitive:
I the girl from the fire (keep) and you the cat from the water away keep.
instead of:
I the girl from the fire (away keep) and you the cat from the water away keep.
Are we allowed to restore more than the verb?
Note that one or more restore elements would then depend on the restored root and they would not be "conj" to the existing root (which is the example given in the UD documentation).
Consider also the following example:
My father planned and built his house all by himself + my brother planned and built his house in the same way.
This would result in the Middle Persian structure:
My father his house all by himself planned and built and my brother in the same way.
Are we allowed to restore both verbs? I.e.:
My father his house all by himself planned and built and my brother in the same way (planned and built).
Can we indicate each verb by a consecutive number? This means: "planned" as .1 and "built" as .2 ?
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Yes, I agree there should be multiple ellipsis nodes in cases like this, and I don't think there's any rule against it. UD_English-GUM has quite a few cases like that, for example:
In the first example, I would also restore away although it is not directly the predicate. Maybe the Persian example should be added to the guidelines?
In the second example, I would restore both the verbs. Since they are predicates, this is even less questionable. I do not think we have been showing exactly this (coordination of verbs) but we definitely have examples where two verbs are restored because they are in xcomp relation (Susan wants to go to Prague and Jane [wants to go] to Rome.)
It is my understanding that if clauses are coordinated and share the same elements, those can be omitted in the first and appear fully in the last such as:
In Middle Persian, a verb-final language, this would result in:
UD only restores the verb here, which is counter-intuitive:
instead of:
Are we allowed to restore more than the verb?
Note that one or more restore elements would then depend on the restored root and they would not be "conj" to the existing root (which is the example given in the UD documentation).
Consider also the following example:
This would result in the Middle Persian structure:
Are we allowed to restore both verbs? I.e.:
Can we indicate each verb by a consecutive number? This means: "planned" as .1 and "built" as .2 ?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: