Short Description of a CTT file
CTT stands for Coded Text Tabulated. It is a human-readable ASCII file which offers an overview of the clause atom hierarchy. The information is displayed in nine fields of fixed width, which are the following.
- Verse Label
- Person/Number/Gender of the predicate
- Clause Atom Type of the daughter
- Indication of the mother
- Text Type
- Paragraph Number
- Clause Atom Number
- Tabulation and Subtypes
- Hierarchy with surface text and parsing labels
Field 3. Clause Atom Type of the daughter
A list of the clause atom types can be found, for instance, at https://etcbc.github.io/bhsa/features/typ.
Field 4. Indication of the mother
This can be either:
- the clause atom type of the mother, for example
WayX
; - the marker
[Q]
, which indicates that the mother introduced direct speech; - the marker
[R]
, which means that this atom is the root of the clause atom hierarchy; - a clause constituent relation, for instance
[adjunct]
.
Field 5. Text Type
Text type is a feature of a clause. In clauses that consist of more than one clause atom, the value for text type is repeated with every subsequent clause atom of the clause. The values are constructed in a cumulative manner. The clause L> T>KLW M-KL <Y H-GN
in Genesis 3:1, for instance, is a quotation within a quotation in a narrative passage, and therefore marked NQQ
. Text type is a concatenation of any of the following characters.
Sign | Meaning |
---|---|
? | Unknown |
D | Discursive |
N | Narrative |
Q | Quotation |
Field 8. Subtypes
The two subtypes are indicated by two characters. The first subtype indicates whether the clause atom effectively contains a predicate, and if not, why. The character codes are summarised in the table below.
Sign | Meaning |
---|---|
. | empty |
c | casus pendens |
d | defective |
l | ellipsis |
m | macrosyntactic sign |
r | reopening |
v | vocative |
x | extraposition |
The second subtype indicates the status of the clause atom in the text. The character codes are summarised in the table below.
Sign | Meaning |
---|---|
# | new paragraph |
. | empty |
N | no connection |
\ | downward connection |
e | embedding |
p | proleptic ellipsis |
q | direct speech |
Field 9. Hierarchy with surface text and parsing labels
Text Block Borders
The horizontal lines group clauses of the same text type, where
-----
is used for narrative and discursive blocks and =====
for direct speech blocks. The borders are condensed, that is,
when they coincide, only the outer border is drawn.
Phrase Atom Relations
Label | Meaning |
---|---|
<ap> |
Apposition |
<cj> |
Link |
<pa> |
Parallel |
<ss> |
Suffix specification |
<sp> |
Specification |
Phrase Function within Clause
Label | Meaning |
---|---|
<..> |
Unknown |
<Aj> |
Adjunct |
<Co> |
Complement |
<Cj> |
Conjunction |
<Ep> |
Enclitic personal pronoun |
<Xs> |
Existence with subject suffix |
<eX> |
Existence |
<Fr> |
Fronted element |
<Ij> |
Interjection |
<Is> |
Interjection with subject suffix |
<Lo> |
Locative |
<Mo> |
Modifier |
<Ms> |
Modifier with subject suffix |
<NC> |
Negative copula |
<Ns> |
Negative copula with subject suffix |
<Ng> |
Negation |
<Ob> |
Object |
<Pj> |
Predicative adjunct |
<PS> |
Predicate complement with subject suffix |
<PC> |
Predicate complement |
<Pr> |
Predicate |
<PO> |
Predicate with object suffix |
<Ps> |
Predicate with subject suffix |
<po> |
Participle with object suffix |
<Qu> |
Question |
<Re> |
Relative |
<Su> |
Subject |
<sc> |
Supplementary constituent |
<Ti> |
Time reference |
<Vo> |
Vocative |