# DEPS and ARGS

**URL:** <https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369>\
**Category:** DELPH-IN JRF\
**Created:** [November 11, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369 "2019-11-11T20:11:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/user_avatar/delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/olzama/32/6_2.png) [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369/1 "2019-11-11T20:11:56Z")

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Does DEPS in [Bouma et al. 2001](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006473306778) correspond to the feature ARGS in the DELPH-IN formalism? I mean generally; I realize that the DELPH-IN formalism does not implement the Argument Realization Principle, for example (and I am assuming that Argument Structure Extension is not a thing either?)

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**Author:** ![olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/user_avatar/delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/olzama/32/6_2.png) [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369/2 "2019-11-11T20:25:17Z")

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(Answering myself): Nope, that’s completely different; ARGS is a feature of a phrase while DEPS is a feature of a word.

I am assuming then that there is no analog of DEPS in the DELPH-IN universe?

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**Author:** ![ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369/3 "2019-11-12T15:12:42Z")

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ARGS indeed is a feature of phrases, the list containing the daughters.

The only thing feature in the Matrix that is in the same space as DEPS is ARG-ST, but as you note, it only includes arguments and no modifiers.

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**Author:** ![olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/user_avatar/delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/olzama/32/6_2.png) [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369/4 "2019-11-12T16:40:55Z")

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Yeah, the main point of Bouma et al. is that they use DEPS as a separate feature from ARG-ST. I am trying to understand which bits of their analysis are relevant to me.

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**Author:** ![ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/deps-and-args/369/5 "2019-11-12T17:13:45Z")

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Yeah that part doesn’t get adopted, because lists of possibly unbounded length (other than the write-only ones) are awkward.