Freq Command on %gra Tier

[Kimberly Mueller]

Dear Brian,

Thank you for this, it is working nicely.  I went through the manual, and 
decided to add a few other grammatical relations in order to capture 
syntactic complexity. I am hoping that you (or others) might look it over 
and let me know if this list appears sound?  The entire list includes the 
following:

CSUBJ:  the finite clausal subject of another clause
COMP: the finite clausal complement of a verb 
XCOMP: the non-finite clausal complement of a verb 
CPRED: a full clause that serves as the predicate nominal of verbs
CPOBJ: a full clause that serves as the object of a preposition
COBJ: a full clause that serves as object
XJCT: a non-finite clause that attaches to a verb, adjective, or adverb
NJCT: the head of a complex Noun Phrase with a prepositional phrase 
attached as an adjunct of a noun.
CMOD: a finite clause that is a nominal modifier or complement
XMOD: a non-finite clause that is a nominal modifier or complement.

Taking the sum of these captured and then dividing by the total number of 
GRs for that sample, yielding a syntactic complexity ratio.  

Thank you again for all of your help,
Kimberly








On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 1:50:10 PM UTC-5, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>
> Dear Kimberley,
>
> To count, for example, all the cases of XCOMP in the productions by the 
> child in the Eve corpus in Eng-NA-MOR/Brown.zip on CHILDES, I used this 
> command:
>
>  
>
> freq +t%gra +s"%|XCOMP" *.cha +u +t*CHI
>
>  
>
> You could add more +s switches for CMOD, CPRED, and XPRED.  Go through the 
> documentation of the GRs in the manual to see if you consider any others to 
> involve embedding.  Then, I suppose you want to take account of the overall 
> size of your corpus by running
>
>  
>
> freq +t%gra *.cha +u +t*CHI 
>
>  
>
> Then you can divide by the total number of tokens you get there.
>
>  
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
>  
>
> *From: *ChiBolts <chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>> on behalf of 
> Kimberly Mueller <digg... at gmail.com <javascript:>>
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> *Date: *Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 10:57 AM
> *To: *ChiBolts <chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>>
> *Subject: *Freq Command on %gra Tier
>
>  
>
> Dear All,
>
> Thanks to my previous thread with Brian, I am excited to examine 
> grammatical relations using the MEGRASP dependency analysis.  I was 
> unsuccessful in figuring out the correct syntax to extract the frequency 
> of  the following grammatical relations:  CMOD, XMOD, CPRED, XPRED.
> Would someone be willing to help with that?
>
> I am hoping to achieve a subordination index in order to assess syntactic 
> complexity in a group of healthy adults at risk for AD.  
>
> Thank you!
> Kimberly
>
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