Difference between revisions of "NP-PRN"

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Appositive (ísl. viðurlag), as in Fagridalur [hinn eystri] 'Fagridalur the more.eastern', Bjarni bæjarstjóri 'Bjarni mayor', Henry [the king], John [the great], etc.

(NP-SBJ (NPR-N Bjarni-Bjarni)
        (NP-PRN (N-N bæjarstjóri-bæjarstjóri)))

If the title, here bæjarstjóri 'mayor', comes before the name, it doesn't project a phrase (cf. king Henry, doctor Livingstone).

(NP-SBJ (NPR-N bæjarstjóri-bæjarstjóri) (NPR-N Bjarni-Bjarni))

In cases where there is a word that is ambiguous between a demonstrative and a personal pronoun, followed by a noun and a suffixed determiner, our convention is to parse/tag this construction as a personal pronoun with an NP-PRN sister, consisting of the N and D.

( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (Q-N Enginn-enginn) (N-N nábúakrytur-nábúakrytur))
	  (BEDI var-vera)
	  (ADVP (ADV þó-þó))
	  (PP (P með-með)
	      (NP (PRO-D þeim-hann)
		  (NP-PRN (NS-D bændu$-bóndi) (D-D $num-hinn))))
	  (. ;-;))
  (ID 1850.PILTUR.NAR-FIC,.38))

Note that if a second determiner *follows* the N and D, even if this determiner is ambiguous in form between a personal pronoun and a demonstrative, we do not add the extra NP-PRN layer of structure.

More examples of this sort, i.e. a pronoun followed by a noun: við Jón 'we John', that is 'John and I'; þið strákarnir 'you the boys', that is 'you and the boys / the boys including you'; hann Brandur 'he Brandur', that is 'Brandur'.

(NP (PRO-N við-ég)
    (NP-PRN (NPR-N Jón-jón)))

(NP (PRO-N þið-þú)
    (NP-PRN (NS-N strákar$-strákur) (D-N $nir-hinn)))

(NP (PRO-N hann-hann)
    (NP-PRN (NPR-N Brandur-brandur)))

AÐ NAFNI expressions

Appositive expressions involving the PP "AÐ NAFNI" are parsed as follows.

When the "að nafni X" (where X is a name) occurs adjacent to the NP it is describing, as in "menn að nafni Jón", "að nafn" is parsed as a PP inside the NP headed by "menn" and "Jón" is an NP-PRN inside the same NP headed by "menn", both attached at the same level. Thus, "að nafni Jón" is not parsed as a constituent, but "menn að nafni Jón og Gísli" is parsed as a constituent, as in the NP-SBJ in the example below:

( (IP-MAT (ADVP-TMP (ADV Þá-þá))
	  (RDDI urðu-verða)
	  (ADJP (ADJ-N missáttir-missáttur))
	  (NP-SBJ (NS-N bræður-bróðir)
		  (NUM-N tveir-tveir)
		  (CONJP (CONJ og-og)
			 (NX (NS-N konungar-konungur)))
		  (, ,-,)
		  (PP (P að-að)
		      (NP (N-D nafni-nafni)))
		  (NP-PRN (NPR-N Herodes-heródes) (CONJ og-og) (NPR-N Philippus-Philippus))
		  (, ,-,)
		  (NP-PRN (NS-N synir-sonur)
			  (NP-POS (NPR-G Herodis-heródes)
				  (D-G þess-það)
				  (, ,-,)
				  (CP-REL (WNP-1 0)
					  (C er-er)
					  (IP-SUB (NP-SBJ *T*-1)
						  (NP-2 (NS-D börnum-barn))
						  (VBDI lét-láta)
						  (IP-INF (NP-SBJ *ICH*-2)
							  (VB fara-fara)))))))
	  (. .-.)) (ID 11XX.HOMILIUBOK.REL-SER,.237))