4.4 XML document structure

• XML document structure of DICKENS:

  <novel title="A Tale of Two Cities">
    <tilepage> ... </titlepage>
    <book num=1>
      <chapter num=1 title="The Period">
         ...
      </chapter>
      ...
    </book>
    ...
  </novel>
  

• use set PrintStructures command to display novel, chapter, ... for each match

  > set PrintStructures "novel_title, chapter_num";
> A = [lemma = "ghost"];
> cat A;

• find matches in a particular novel

  > B = [pos = "NP"] [pos = "NP"] ::
match.novel_title = "David Copperfield";
> group B matchend lemma by match lemma;

  (note that <novel_title = "..."> cannot be used in this case because the XML start tag of the respective <novel> region will usually be far away from the match)

• frequency distributions can also be computed for s-attribute values

  > group A match novel_title;