dislocated:advcl

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`dislocated:advcl`: dislocated adverbial clause

Through different subtypes of dislocated we more precisely identify which argument has been dislocated in the sentence and how it is realized in this position (nominally or clausally). This information is not directly retrievable otherwise from “basic” dependencies, since the dislocated relation always depends on the local head. It is also kept distinct from the use of dislocated for topicalisations and similar phenomena, which are not directly related to an argument expressed in the matrix clause.

In the translation of the example, the bold passage corresponds to the dislocated element, and the underlined passage to the dislocating one.



  
    input
    brat
    info
  
ex hoc aliqua res est intelligens quod est sine materia
obl(intelligens, hoc)
cop(intelligens, est)
mark(materia, quod)
cop(materia, est)
case(materia, sine)
dislocated:advcl(intelligens, materia)
{
    "text": "ex hoc aliqua res est intelligens quod est sine materia ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-1-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 2 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T2", "token", [ [ 3, 6 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T3", "token", [ [ 7, 13 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T4", "token", [ [ 14, 17 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T5", "token", [ [ 18, 21 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T6", "token", [ [ 22, 33 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T7", "token", [ [ 34, 38 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T8", "token", [ [ 39, 42 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T9", "token", [ [ 43, 47 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T10", "token", [ [ 48, 55 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-1-R1", "obl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T2" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-R2", "cop", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T5" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-R3", "mark", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T10" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T7" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-R4", "cop", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T10" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T5" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-R5", "case", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T10" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T9" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-R6", "dislocated:advcl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T10" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "1" ]
}

‘a thing is intelligent because it is without matter.’ (ITTB dev-s2007, Summa Contra Gentiles lib. 1 cap. 44 n. 5, Thomas Aquinas)

The dislocation disappears in this translation, as it literally is ‘for this a thing is intelligent, since it is without matter’. The adverbial clause is anticipated by an oblique argument making use of the demonstrative neuter singular determiner (in the ablative case) hoc ‘this (one)’, so this dislocation is asymmetric.

Note: in general, the dislocated element does not need to be of the same form as the corresponding argument appearing in the matrix clause, and there can be alternation between clausal and nominal realisations. The subtype of dislocated depends on the type of the dislocated element, not on that of the argument in the matrix clause.

dislocated:advcl in other languages: [la]

dislocated:advcl: dislocated adverbial clause

`dislocated:advcl`: dislocated adverbial clause