Time
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;@present is used to indicate an action at the present, and not habits, routines and statements: | ;@present is used to indicate an action at the present, and not habits, routines and statements: | ||
:I'm in Frankfurt. = @present | :I'm in Frankfurt. = @present | ||
| − | :I always come to school by cycle. = no | + | :I always come to school by cycle. = no time information |
| − | :The sun sets in the Occident. = no | + | :The sun sets in the Occident. = no time information |
| − | ; | + | ;Time values may be combined. |
:I'm going home tomorrow = go.@future.@recent | :I'm going home tomorrow = go.@future.@recent | ||
:I had been there = @past.@anterior | :I had been there = @past.@anterior | ||
Revision as of 22:18, 23 June 2010
Time is a semantic category that indicates when a given event occurs. It may be expressed by attributes or by relations.
Time attributes
The values for the attribute time are the following:
- The UNL representation indicates the time rather than the grammatical tense of a form.
- There is no simple one-to-one relationship between tense forms and time. In English, for instance, the present (grammatical tense) may be used to represent the future (time)
- I’m going home tomorrow = go.@future.@recent (and not go.@present)
- @present is used to indicate an action at the present, and not habits, routines and statements
- I'm in Frankfurt. = @present
- I always come to school by cycle. = no time information
- The sun sets in the Occident. = no time information
- Time values may be combined.
- I'm going home tomorrow = go.@future.@recent
- I had been there = @past.@anterior
