VERB-headed appos

[nschneid]

A lot of these look fishy to me: https://universal.grew.fr/?custom=65182c0944276

• complement of "named", "dated" (xcomp?)
  • Two top Iraqi scientists, code named Charlie and Alpha
  • letter dated November 16, 2000
• setup-reveal discourse structures (I am thinking parataxis would be better)
  • There is an old saying that applies in this situation: "Act in haste, repent at leisure."
  • And I have to wonder: Did he forget that he already has a memoir called "A Charge to Keep"?
    • this could be ccomp, treating the colon like a comma
  • Get six separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST."
• action verb elaborated with examples (implicit "namely, ...") - parataxis?
  • Maybe do volunteer work at the humane society, walk dogs, groom the animals etc.
  • they have been playing(chasing each other up and down the hall, rolling around on the ground and pawing at each other).
• stative verb elaborated with a description (implicit "namely, ...") - parataxis?
  • I was not happy with the way they looked, very wavy, uneven edges, and with the exception of 1, there is a dip in the center of each nail.
  • Their Thali was not brought out as described (no saag).
• action verb & noun that characterizes/elaborates on that action (parataxis?)
  • The next day an angry Musharraf categorically said that Pakistan would not send Pakistani troops to Iraq, a clear snub to the Americans.
  • They explained that elk in Yellowstone used to browse unmolested on young aspen and willow growing near the banks of streams, a behavior that prevented the saplings from reaching mature stages and increased the possibility of soil erosion.
  • parenthetical that is not next to the thing it elaborates (parataxis?)
  • This term was first used in German (Hochrenaissance) in the early nineteenth century

(I think the EVENT: DATE ones like "Koran descends to Earth: April 6, 610 AD Monday" are valid as key-value pairs in a list; https://universaldependencies.org/u/dep/appos.html)

[nschneid]

• letter dated November 16, 2000

Let's consider an active voice variant: "I dated the letter November 16". Is that a sort of obligatory resultative? It's a bit nonprototypical for xcomp because you wouldn't say the letter is/became November 16, but by metonymy, the writing on the letter became that...a similar verb would be "label".

[nschneid]

@amir-zeldes curious for your input

[amir-zeldes]

I think this should be xcomp, it falls under the same general type as appointment verbs IMO (I appoint you president) - you're dating the letter X, and it is therefore so dated, a kind of performative action.

[nschneid]

OK. Does parataxis look good for the others?

[amir-zeldes]

LGTM, except "do volunteer work at the humane society, walk dogs, groom the animals etc.", since "etc." is analyzed as as conj effectively containing a cc, so maybe conj across the board makes more sense there (you can't say "and etc." so this is the only way to make an explicit coordination here)

[nschneid]

• Maybe do volunteer work at the humane society, walk dogs, groom the animals etc.

Yes the "etc." is in a coordination, but I take walking the dogs and grooming the animals to be examples of volunteer work at the humane society. So "do" is not part of the coordination.

[amir-zeldes]

Oh, I see, that makes sense.