Corpus Taurinense: Sample Queries

Ulrich Heid

Draft input to the Web Presentation of CT
Version of 18/9/2000, printed on 26. Oktober 2000

Sample queries

The following sample queries give an overview of the types of information you can find in the Corpus Taurinense and the kinds of queries you can ask via the GUI.

Word forms, lemmas, word sequences

Word forms: As a default, the standard word form is used in all queries. See query (13) in section 0.1.4 for cases where the manuscript and the philological form differ.
Example:
$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: ''si''; Results: per lui <si\gt manofesta lo dolzore e doglia con color trafigurato\end{verbatim} \end{ex}$

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: ''cane''; Results: Questi fu ÷e avarissimo come <cane\gt .\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$
Words found by means of their lemma: Inflected forms have the base form attached, and you can search for a base form and get all inflected cases.
Example:
$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [lemma = ''volere'']; Results: parole <vori... ...l meo detto primero c' Amor sua via a tutta gente aprisse\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$
Clitics attached to a word form: Clitics which are attached to a word form are marked with a special symbol.
The example below allows for ''si'' attached to a word form, written with one or two -s- (-ssi or -si): Note the explicit query for several clitics in (6).
$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: ''÷.?si''; Results: -- [...] e va ÷vi <÷si\gt... ... te , perché sa che se' fondamento e capo de ÷ll' altre .\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$
Word sequences: Several word forms in a row (sequence of expressions as in (1) may be searched for. Or a word form followed by any form of a lemma (see (3)), etc.
$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: ''si'' ''nasco.+''; Results: -- E però è cos... ...ltò fuori e la gatta, perch' era satolla , non lo prese .\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$
Clitic sequences: As clitics are introduced by a special symbol (only if attached to a word form), the query below, which is a variant of a query for a word sequence gets you forms with clitic sequences. The symbol [] stands for an arbitrary word; it is followed by three clitics (i.e. three words, each starting with a clitic symbol):

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [] ''÷.+'' ''÷.+'' ''÷.+''; Results: Ben... ...ì te ne porta la pena , ké qua entro no ÷l lasciera' tu .\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

Attributes of word forms

Word class: the part of speech labelling of Corpus Taurinense is quite detailed (see the explanations in the POS inventory (link!)). For verbs, for example, infinitives are marked with a component ''v.'' (for verbs) and ''inf.'' (for infinitives). An example of a simple query for infinitives after volere is given below:

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [lemma = ''volere''][]+ [pos = ''.*inf.*''] w... ...gloria de ÷l mondo non vi <voglio eternalmente dannare\gt\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

The query allows for several items (of any kind) between volere and the infinitive.
Morphosyntax: The kat-attribute allows for further morphosyntactic refinements of word class queries. The following query uses also the POS-feature to indicate the second person. The query explicitly looks for questions, which have the question mark as last element of the sentence:

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [lemma = ''volere'' & pos = ''.*ind.pr.*'' & ... ... ?\gt <Vuo' tu , figliuolo , diventare nostro fedele ?\gt\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

Text type information

Text type: We distinguish verse, prosa and rubrica. these can be queried via word forms, by means of the typ-feature; The following query checks all forms of the lemma cuore which are written with -uo-, and which appear in verse.

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [lemma = ''cuore'' & word = ''.+uo.+'' & typ ... ...l <cuor\gt tuo » ; e cosí vedi che , dicendo « guarda » ,\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

The next query looks for the writing core in verse:

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [lemma = ''cuore'' & word != ''.+uo.+'' & typ... ...r , che non fan manti afanni l' om disavanzare in danno .\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$
Genre : The same way as for text types, we can also query for word forms in a particular genre, i.e. one of doc(umentation), did(actic writings), stor (for history), nar(rative) or lir (for lyrics). An example is given in the following pair of queries, where ragione has different senses, correlated with the presence in a documentary text or in another type:

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [pos = ''.*v.+.ind.+''] []{1,4}[lemma = ''rag... ...s also show simple ways of finding noun+verb-collocations.\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: [pos = ''.*v.+.ind.+''] []{1,4}[lemma = ''rag... ...tanzia sanza ragione\gt: che , dacché non è buono a [...]\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

Corrections

We distinguish the form of a word which was found in the manuscript (msform), a standard form, and the philologically edited version, corrected and/or amended, of the manuscript form, philform.

Interesting cases are those (few) ones where the manuscript has a non-standard writing, i.e. whre msform and philform differ. These cases are queried by means of an expression saying (roughly): ``for any form in the text ([]), check whether its (call it a) msform- differs from its philform-attribute''. To express such a constraint, the item checked is made reference to by means of a variable name (here a):

$\begin{ex} \begin{verbatim} Query: a:[] :: a.msform != a.philform Results: <ricca/rica/ric&[c&]a\gt <aggiate/agiate/ag&[g&]iate\gt\end{verbatim}\end{ex}$

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