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`csubj:reported`: reported speech from passive verb of saying

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 ccomp: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 an object of a verb of saying. When it is a subject, it is always intended as a passive one: there is no other logical possibility.



  
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Hinc etiam dicebatur de celo peccatori David : Quare tu enarras iustitias meas ? , quasi diceret : Frustra loqueris , cum tu sis alius ab eo quod loqueris
csubj:reported(dicebatur, enarras)
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‘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)

Here, the first verb of saying, dico ‘to say’, is in the passive voice, so literally: ‘from the heavens it was being said to the sinner David: …’



  
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Sed nunc queritur : Cum illa regio celi circulariter feratur , quare illa elevatio non fuit circularis ?
csubj:reported(queritur, circularis)
advcl(circularis, feratur)
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‘But now the question arises: Since that region of heaven is borne round us in a circle, why was not the corresponding elevation circular?’ (UDante Que-108, aqua et terra 74, Dante Alighieri)

The verb of saying is quaero ‘to ask’, so literally: ‘but now it is asked: …’

csubj:reported in other languages: [la]

csubj:reported: reported speech from passive verb of saying

`csubj:reported`: reported speech from passive verb of saying