Annotation of causal and aspectual structure of events in RED: a preliminary report
William Croft, Pavlina Peskova, Michael Regan · 2016
Causal and temporal relations among events are typically analyzed in terms of interclausal relations.Yet participants in a monoclausal event interact causally as well, and monoclausal events unfold in temporal phases.We propose an annotation scheme for the resulting analysis of event structure types.The annotation scheme is based on a fine-grained analysis of aspectual structure combined with a novel analysis of physical event types based on proposals in the theoretical linguistics literature.By decomposing complex events in a clause, we will ultimately model the overall dynamic causal network of entities interacting over time described in a text.