ETCBC / CTT

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.

1. Verse Label
2. Person/Number/Gender of the predicate
3. Clause Atom Type of the daughter
4. Indication of the mother
5. Text Type
6. Paragraph Number
7. Clause Atom Number
8. Tabulation and Subtypes
9. 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:

1. the clause atom type of the mother, for example WayX;
2. the marker [Q], which indicates that the mother introduced direct speech;
3. the marker [R], which means that this atom is the root of the clause atom hierarchy;
4. 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