How to obtain verb frequencies for marked segments

[Linda Mortensen]

Many thanks for explaining this and for giving me the commands that can do
the job.
Linda

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

> Linda,
>
> GEMFREQ command was designed to do simple search. It is a simplified
> shortcut for combination of GEM and FREQ commands. The +s option in GEMFREQ
> specifies the name of the gem that you wan to extract and the +w option
> specifies the words on speaker tiers you want to analyze. But, GEMFREQ is
> not designed to recognize the %mor tier searches specified with +s@|...
> option. There is no CLAN program that can break down analysis based on
> gems. You need to use the following command and run it separately for every
> gem you are interested in:
>
> gem +t%mor +ssome_gem +d *.cha | freq +s@|v,|v:*
>
> The +s option on GEM command's side of '|' character tell GEM to extract a
> gem with "some_gem" label. Or you can use these two commands:
>
> gem +t%mor +ssome_gem +d +fsome_gem *.cha
> freq +s@|v,|v:* *.some_gem.cex
>
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:05, Linda Mortensen wrote:
>
> Dear ChiBolts,
>
> I need to extract all the verbs from a set of transcription files and need
> the verbs to be extracted from separate portions of each file. To do this,
> I first use the MOR command to generate a CHAT file that contains both main
> lines and %mor lines. In this MOR file I have inserted the "@BG:" and
> "@EG:" markers to segment each file into portions corresponding to the
> pictures that are described in the file. I have inserted the "@BG:" marker
> before the first main line associated with a given picture and the "@EG:"
> marker after the last %mor line associated with the same picture. I then
> use the following GEMFREQ command: gemfreq +fS +t%mor +s@|v,|v:* *.cha.
> But when I run this command, I get a file that lists the frequency of each
> word in the file (not just the verbs), and the frequencies are given for
> the entire file (not for each marked segment separately). How do I get the
> frequencies for each @BG- at EG marked segment? And how do I limit the
> frequency counts to the verbs only?
>
> I'd appreciate any advice on this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Linda
>
>
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