Tense
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Revision as of 20:33, 23 June 2010
Tense is a category used in the grammatical description of verbs (along with aspect and mood), referring primarily to the way the grammar marks the time at which the action denoted by the verb took place. It can be broadly classified as:
- absolute tense: indicates time in relationship to the time of the utterance (i.e. "now").
- relative tense: in relationship to some other time, other than the time of utterance.
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Natural language
In the UNLarium framework, the attribute tense is represented by the following hierarchy, where lower levels subsume upper levels:
- General tenses
- General tenses, such as simple past or simple future in English, are indicated by the uppermost level of the corresponding branch.
- English
- simple past = PAS
- simple future = FUT
- English
- Relative and absolute-relative tenses are indicated by combining absolute and relative tags through "&"
- English:
- past perfect (= past of the past): PAS&RPT
- future perfect (= past of the future): FUT&RPT
- French:
- passé antérieur (= past of the past): PAS&RPT
- future antérieur (= past of the future): FUT&RPT
- Tense, mood and aspect
- Tense, mood and aspect can be conjoined with "&":
- aorist: PAS&PFV
- imperfect (past imperfect): PAS&NPFV
- present perfect: PRS&PFC
- Simple and compound tenses
- The difference between simple and compound forms must be informed only if they represent different alternatives for the same tense. Compounds are indicated through the attribute "CPW":
- French
- passé simple: PAS
- passé composé: PAS&CPW
- French
Examples
List of grammatical tenses:
UNL
In UNL, tense is to be represented by time attributes.
Examples
List of grammatical tenses:
