3.1 Named query results

• store query result in memory under specified name (should begin with capital letter)

  > Go = [lemma = "go"] "and" [];

  note that query results are not automatically displayed in this case

• list named query results (or NQR for short)

  > show named;

• the NQR specifiers shown in the output of this command are fully qualified with the CWB name of the corpus, e.g. DICKENS:Go for the query above. As a consequence, there can be multiple NQRs with the same name for different corpora.

• if NQR names are used without a prefixed corpus in CQP commands (as in the examples below), they are automatically prefixed with the currently activated corpus

• the result of the most recent (last) query is automatically stored in memory and named Last

• commands such as cat, sort, and count operate on Last by default

• Last is always temporary and will be overwritten when a new query is executed (or a subset command, see Section 3.5)

• display number of results

  > size Go;

• (full or partial) KWIC display

  > cat Go;
> cat Go 5 9;$\quad$ (6 $^{\text{th}}$ – 10 $^{\text{th}}$ match)

• sorting a named query result automatically re-displays the matches

  > sort Go by word %cd;

• the count command also sorts the named query on which it operates, that is,

  > count Go by lemma cut 5;

  implicitly executes the command sort Go by lemma;

• this has the advantage that identical word sequences now appear on adjacent lines in the KWIC display and can easily be printed with a single cat command; the respective line numbers are shown in square brackets at the end of each line in the frequency listing

          13      go and see  [#128-#140]
          10      go and sit  [#144-#153]
          9       go and do  [#29-#37]
          7       go and fetch  [#42-#48]
          7       go and look  [#87-#93]
          7       go and play  [#107-#113]
  

  to display occurrences of go and see, enter

  > cat Go 128 140;

• if a fully qualified NQR is used, a query result can be accessed even if its corpus isn't currently activated, so that

  > size DICKENS:Go;
> count DICKENS:Go by lemma cut 5;

  will work regardless of the current corpus.

• Due to a long-standing bug in CQP, this feature should not be used with cat or any other command that generates KWIC output (such as sort). Doing so will corrupt the context descriptor, which holds information about all available attributes, those selected for printing, and the KWIC context size.

  > GERMAN-LAW;
> show cd;
> cat DICKENS:Time;
> show cd;

• The context descriptor can only be repaired by temporarily activating a different corpus and then re-activating the desired corpus.

  > DICKENS;
> GERMAN-LAW;