Grammar example

Now let us take "I thanked him." as an example. I will illustrate how the ENJU grammar work with this example.

The lexical entry corresponding to the "I" in this sentence would like like the following AVM. For more precise description of the lexical entry, check out the lexical entry of "I" ． (You can view it with a browser that supports XHTML and XSLT)

The lexical entry corresponding to the "thanked" in this sentence would look like the following AVM. For more precise description, check out the lexical entry of "thanked"．

The lexical entry corresponding to the "him" in this sentence would look like the following AVM．For more precise description, check out the lexical entry of "him"．

Next we apply the Head-Complement Schema to the sign of "thanked" and the sign of "him"．The Head-Complement Schema can be applied to signs that satisfy the following constraint:

As a result of applying the Head-Subject Schema to the above sign and the sign of "I", we obtain the sign corresponding to the whole sentence. The initial value SYNSEM\LOCAL\CAT\VAL\SUBJ feature of the sign of the head ("thanked him") is unified with the value of the SYNSEM feature of the sign of subject("I")．The SYNSEM\LOCAL\CONT\HOOK\ARG1 feature of the head is assigned the value of the SYNSEM\LOCAL\CONT\HOOK feature of "I". As a result of applying the semantic_binary_principle, the SYNSEM\LOCAL\CONT\HOOK\ARG1 feature of the head is passed up to the mother．(?mistake in Japanese version. "him"->"I")

We can obtain the following predicate argument structure from the value of the SYNSEM\LOCAL\CONT\HOOK feature of the above sign:

ROOT     ROOT   ROOT  ROOT  -1  ROOT  thanked  thank  VBD  VB     1
thanked  thank  VBD   VB     1  ARG1  I        i      PRP  PRP    0
thanked  thank  VBD   VB     1  ARG2  him      him    PRP  PRP    2