[Corpora-List] Freeware for parsing corpora for tense and voice?

[Francis Bond]

G'day,

the English Resource Grammar can do this
(http://moin.delph-in.net/ErgTop).  Technically it marks predicates of
type event with the feature TENSE, and adds a discouse predicate
parg_d that links a passive verb and it's subject.

Note that in sentences like 'The dog was happy', tense is marked on
the adjective, /was/ is treated as semantically empty and thus has no
predicate to assign tense to.  Similarly for 'the dog was under the
table'.



On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:47 AM, njbruce <njbruce at hku.hk> wrote:
> I'm writing to ask if there are any freeware resources able to identify tense and voice in English corpora.
> The idea is to offer users the option of combining lexical and grammatical searches, e.g. so they can yield frequency displays.
> Any help welcome.
> Nigel Bruce
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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University

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