flat:
Flat structures are rare in Middle Persian because personal names usually take the family name as a dependent. Titles like kay can be in a dependent relation but they also occur juxtaposed and can even become part of the name, e.g. kay us → kayus → kay kayus.
- “Kay Wištāsp” (sometimes even written as one word)
kay wištāsp \n Kay Wištāsp flat(wištāsp, kay) - “Zardušt Wuzurgmihr (and) Mihrātaxš of Ādurgušnasp”
zardušt wuzurgmihr mihrātaxš ī ādurgušnasp \n Zardušt Wuzurgmihr Mihrātaxš EZ Ādurgušnasp flat(zardušt, wuzurgmihr) conj(zardušt, mihrātaxš) nmod(mihrātaxš, ādurgušnasp) det(ādurgušnasp, ī)
Avestan quotations are annotated as flat when they represent a more or less accidental sequence of Avestan words, e.g., referring to a specific text passage. If they represent a fixed expression, the relation is fixed.
- “(The prayer beginning with) yə̄ səuuištō ahurō mazdā̊scā, as (it) appears in the Gathas, is to be said three (times).”
yə̄ səuuištō ahurō mazdā̊scā , čiyōn pad gāhān bawēd , se guftan \n QUOTE QUOTE QUOTE QUOTE , as in Gathas be , three say.NEC flat(yə̄, səuuištō) flat(yə̄, ahurō) flat(yə̄, mazdā̊scā) nsubj:pass(guftan, yə̄)
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