A incidental clause, inserted in a direct speech or following a direct speech, has no explicit syntactic link with the head of the speech. It is then expressed with a parataxis dependency.
Consider the following examples.
Il est arrivé, affirme-t-il, trop tard. (He arrived, he says, too late.)
Il est arrivé trop tard, affirme-t-il. (He arrived too late, he says.)
In both sentences, there is a parataxis dependency from "est" to "affirme".
However, when a direct speech is introduced with a clause preceding it, the relation between them is expressed with a comp:obj dependency.
Consider the following example.
il affirme : " Il est arrivé trop tard." ( He says: "He arrived too late.")
There is a comp:obj dependency from "affirme" to "est".
A incidental clause, inserted in a direct speech or following a direct speech, has no explicit syntactic link with the head of the speech. It is then expressed with a parataxis dependency.
Consider the following examples.
In both sentences, there is a parataxis dependency from "est" to "affirme".
However, when a direct speech is introduced with a clause preceding it, the relation between them is expressed with a comp:obj dependency.
Consider the following example.
There is a comp:obj dependency from "affirme" to "est".