ccomp:reported: reported speech from active verb of saying or digression in discursive form
As per the changes in v2.10, reported speech is now coherently treated as a clausal complement of the (possibly elliptical) predicate of saying, and no longer by means of the relation parataxis: specifically, together with csubj:reported it replaces the previous relation parataxis:rep and helps better describe this construction.
We still introduce the subtype reported to ease the retrieval of this particular case: in fact, while Latin tipically uses either non-finite verbal constructions or connectors such as subordinating conjunctions to introduce an object clause, reported speech can also be conveyed by the simple juxtaposition of an otherwise independent clause with respect to verb form, mood, tense, and other.
Reported speech, as any clause, can also appear as a (passive) subject of a verb of saying.
‘Hence a voice from heaven asked the sinner David: “Why do you tell of my righteousness?”, as if to say: ‘You speak in vain, since your words are belied by what you are’.’ (UDante Mon-143, De Monarchia I xiii 5, Dante Alighieri)
- the verb of saying of the second reported speech is dico ‘to say’, here with active voice: ‘as if it were saying: …’
ccomp:reported in other languages: [it] [la]