Statistical Analysis of the Sentence Focus Distribution in the Narrative Discourse
LV Shinan · Zhongwen xinxi xuebao · 2013
Based on the annotation of the sentence focus in 30 narrative texts of mandarin Chinese by 20 annotators,a statistical analysisis conducted to explore the distribution pattern of sentence focus from the perspectives of lexicon and semantics.The result shows that focus words occupy about one fifth of the total number of the content words,the adjectives are more probable to become focus than other part-of-speech words.From the perspective of the semantic roles,,the patient has the highest probability to be focalized,followed by the peripheral argument,and the agent and predicate words come at last.