something happens

[jakpra]

What about something in I was afraid of something happening to me?

• F outside P: treating as expletive
• F inside P: [ something_C happening_F ]_P (light-verby) or [ something_F happening_C ]_P (inverse light verb?)
• unanalyzable P [ something happening ]_P
• D outside P: ???
• something is P, happening is D

[omriabnd]

If I'm not mistaken, the position of the F doesn't matter for evaluation, as it is often ambiguous. I would leave it outside the P since the guidelines instruct us to prefer shorter P wherever possible.

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[jakpra]

Right. But then what is the P and what the F? happen seems pretty light/shell-verby to me.
If it were the accident happened, clearly accident should be P. But with pronouns I'm not sure.

Cf.
it happened
this happened
where it and this can be coreferential with another, more explicit event mention.

[omriabnd]

I see what you mean. So the question is how do we annotate pronouns that refer to events. Maybe we should label them as P?

[dotdv]

Back then we discussed "what happened" and eventually decided to annotate "what" as A. We added this example to the guidelines: ``Tell_P me_A [what_C [{what}_A happened_P]_E]_A'' (appears in "Question words")
It seems similar to "I was afraid of something happening to me", no?

[omriabnd]

right. yes, let's follow the same route here.

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On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:32 AM dotdv ***@***.***> wrote: Back then we discussed "what happened" and eventually decided to annotate "what" as A. We added this example to the guidelines: ``Tell_P me_A [what_C [{what}_A happened_P]_E]_A'' (appears in "Question words") It seems similar to "I was afraid of something happening to me", no? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#60 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACA3Z27RE2FOE7CIH5V3A63PT7NKBANCNFSM4HHTGTMA> .