2.9 Sorting and counting

• sort matches alphabetically (and re-displays query results)

  > [pos = "IN"] "any|every" [pos = "NN"];
> sort by word;

• add %c and %d flags to ignore case and/or diacritics when sorting

  > sort by word %cd;

• matches can be sorted by any positional attribute; just type

  > sort;

  without an attribute name to restore the natural ordering by corpus position

• query results can also be sorted in random order (to avoid looking only at matches from the first part of a corpus when beginning to page through query results):

  > sort randomize;

  more on random sorting and an important application in Section 3.6

• select descending order with desc(ending), or sort matches by suffix with reverse;
  note the ordering when the two options are combined:

  > sort by word descending reverse;

• sort by right or left context (especially useful for keyword searches)

  > "interesting";
> sort by word %cd on matchend[1] .. matchend[42]; (right context)
  > sort by word %cd on match[-1] .. match[-42]; (left context, by words)
  > sort by word %cd on match[-42] .. match[-1] reverse; (same by characters)

• compute frequency distribution of matching word sequences (or annotations)

  > count by word;
> count by lemma;

• %c and %d flags normalise case and/or diacritics before counting

  > count by word %cd;

• set frequency threshold with cut option

  > count by lemma cut 10;

• descending option affects ordering of word sequences with the same frequency; use reverse for some amusing effects (note that these keywords go before the cut option)

• see Sections 3.2 and 3.3 for an explanation of the syntax used in these examples and more information about the sort and count commands