Place of syntactic realization component in a generator
Standard Architecture:
content planning - lexical choice - syntactic realization.
Form of input received:
- skeleton,
- partially lexicalized,
- thematic tree (semantic roles)
Provides:
- semantic roles
- open-class lexical items
- top-level syntactic category for each constituent
Example:
"She eats a pie"
((cat clause)
(process ((type material)
(lex "eat")))
(participants ((agent ((cat personal-pronoun)
(gender feminine)))
(affected ((cat np)
(lex "pie")
(definite no))))))
