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From: "Richard Damon" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] SEEING SENTENCES
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:17:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030904213324.032c03c8@pop3.norton.antivirus>


The way around repetitive default sentences is to make several different
"roles" to represent a given Role in the event. This works best for the
Principal roles as the witnesses can refer back to [P1] (or [P1] <and [P2]>)
without needing a bunch conditionals to refer to all the possibilities.Thus
you could have for the birth tag:

Child-DL: [P] was born <[D]> <[L]>
Child-LD: [P] was born <[L]> <[D]>
Child-Flower: [P] came into the world <[D]> <[L}>

What would make this nicer is if a give Sentence variable could refer to
multiple roles at once like:

Midwife: [W] assisted in the birth of [R:Child-DL|Child-LD|Child-Flower]
(in this case [P] would work, but for other tags (especially in the other
group) you may want to vary the witness sentence based on the role of the
principal.

Richard Damon
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