I am working on trying to figure out exactly how the semantic identities get established for a sentence like The extremely white cat sleeps. in the ERG so I can compare what happens to my understanding of the MRS algebra.
Right now I’m trying to answer the following questions:
- How does the AP extremely white get its HOOK?
- How are the semantic links between the elements on the RELS list of the AP extremely white established?
I’m starting with problem 1, and I have managed to figure out that extremely white gets its HOOK from the HOOK of the head daughter, the AP white.
So next I want to figure out how the AP white has each piece of its HOOK established. I managed to find the information about HOOK.INDEX and HOOK.XARG from the type aj_-_i-color_lexent but I cannot for the life of me find the LTOP information.
I tried to gather the constraints for every supertype of the lexical type for white (aj_-_i-color-er_le ) and I put them in a txt file but when I search LTOP it’s not there. So there must be some other place I should be looking that I can’t find.
Here are the contents of the txt file:
aj_-_i-color-er_le := aj_-_i-color-er_lexent
aj_-_i-color-er_lexent := aj_-_i-color_lexent &
[ SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.HEAD.MINORS.ALTMIN comp_or_meas_rel ].
aj_-_i-color_lexent := norm_adj_word &
[ SYNSEM adj_unsp_ind_onearg_synsem &
[ LOCAL [ CAT [ HEAD.MINORS.MIN color_rel,
VAL.SPR.FIRST.LOCAL.CONT.HOOK.XARG #xarg ],
CONT [ HOOK [ INDEX #xarg,
XARG #ind ],
RELS <! relation !> ] ],
LKEYS.KEYREL.ARG1 #ind & basic_non_expl-ind ] ].
norm_adj_word := basic_norm_adj_word.
basic_norm_adj_word := noncqr-h-nab & mcna &
[ SYNSEM [ LOCAL.CAT [ HEAD adj & [ MINORS.ALTMIN non_ellipt_rel ],
VAL.SPR.FIRST synsem &
[ --MIN more_or_very_deg_rel,
LOCAL.CAT.HS-LEX #hslex ],
HS-LEX #hslex ],
MODIFD notmod ] ].
noncqr-h-nab := noncr-h-nab & nonque.
noncr-h-nab := nonc-h-nab & nonrel.
nonc-h-nab := nonconj & hc-to-phr & non_affix_bearing.
non_affix_bearing := word &
[ INFLECTD + ].
nonconj := word &
[ SYNSEM [ LOCAL.CONJ cnil,
PUNCT no_punctuation_min ] ].
mcna := word &
[ SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.MC na ].
hc-to-phr := word &
[ SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.HC-LEX - ].
nonrel := word &
[ SYNSEM.NONLOC.REL.LIST < > ].
nonque := word &
[ SYNSEM.NONLOC.QUE.LIST < > ].
word := basic_word &
[ SYNSEM.PUNCT.PNCTPR ppair ].
basic_word := word_or_infl_rule & word_or_punct_rule &
[ SYNSEM [ PHON.ONSET.--TL #tl,
LKEYS.KEYREL [ CFROM #from,
CTO #to ] ],
ORTH [ CLASS #class, FROM #from, TO #to, FORM #form ],
TOKENS [ +LIST #tl & < [ +CLASS #class, +FROM #from, +FORM #form ], ... >,
+LAST.+TO #to ] ].
word_or_infl_rule := word_or_infl_or_punct_rule & word_or_nonpunct_rule.
word_or_punct_rule := word_or_infl_or_punct_rule.
word_or_nonpunct_rule := word_or_lexrule.
word_or_infl_or_punct_rule := word_or_lexrule.
word_or_lexrule := word_or_lexrule_min & word_or_bracketed_phrase &
non_unary-rule & word_or_punct_phrase &
[ ALTS alts_min,
TOKENS tokens,
SYNSEM.LOCAL.CAT.--SLASHED.BOOL - ].
word_or_bracketed_phrase := word_or_punct_or_bracketed_phrase.
word_or_punct_phrase := word_or_punct_or_bracketed_phrase.
word_or_lexrule_min := sign_min.
non_unary-rule := phrase_or_lexrule.
word_or_punct_or_bracketed_phrase := sign.
phrase_or_lexrule := sign &
[ SYNSEM canonical_synsem &
[ LOCAL.CONT.HOOK #hook ],
ORTH.FROM #from,
C-CONT mrs_min & [ HOOK #hook ],
ARGS.FIRST.ORTH.FROM #from ].
sign := sign_min &
[ SYNSEM synsem &
[ LOCAL [ CAT.HEAD.MINORS.MIN #min,
CONT.HOOK.INDEX #index ],
--MIN #min,
--SIND #index ],
ORTH orthog,
ARGS *list*,
INFLECTD luk,
GENRE genre,
DIALECT dialect,
IDIOM bool,
DERIVED luk,
RNAME basic_ctype,
CONCEPTS *list* ].
sign_min := *avm* &
[ SYNSEM synsem_min,
KEY-ARG bool ].
*avm* := *top*.