Fig. 1: Results of semantic labelling of the source text in Example 6. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 1: Results of semantic labelling of the source text in Example 6.

From: Do translation universals exist at the syntactic-semantic level? A study using semantic role labeling and textual entailment analysis of English-Chinese translations

Fig. 1

There are altogether 4 argument structures nested in the English sentence, with each semantic role in the structure highlighted and labelled. The hierarchical nestification structure is illustrated by the fact that one sub-structure functions as a semantic role (usually A1 or A2) in its dominative argument structure.

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