Syntactic annotation – sentence fragments – Corpus of Historical Low German

The label FRAG is employed for material which consists of at least two constituents, but which can’t be represented as a full IP.

Some things to note:

Fragmentary clauses which standard alone are labelled as FRAG at the token level (i.e. are not tagged as IP-MAT):

(FRAG (NP (DDARTA De)
          (NA hystorie)
          (PP (APPR van) 
              (NP duldicheyt) 
              (NP-POS (DDARTA der)
                      (NA vrowen) 
                      (RRC (VVPP gheheten)
                           (NP-SMP (NE Griseldis))))))
)

FRAG can also occur as an immediate daughter of IP-MAT, in the case of (non-clausal) direct speech:

(IP-MAT (FRAG-SPE (PTKANT Ja))  ← non-clausal direct speech
        (VVFIN sprack)
        (NP-SBJ (PPER se))
)

(IP-MAT (ADVP (AVD Do))
        (VVFIN antworde)
        (NP-SBJ (PPER he))
        (NP-OB2 (PPER ene))
        (FRAG-SPE (PTKANT nen)) ← non-clausal direct speech
)

(IP-MAT (ADVP (AVD Do))
        (VVFIN sprak)
        (NP-SBJ (PPER se))
        (FRAG-SPE (NP-SBJ (DPNEGS neman))  ← non-clausal direct speech
                  (NP-VOC (NA here)))
)

FRAG is also used for parenthetical clauses which contain a good deal of foreign material (FM):

(IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (DPDS Dit))
        (VMFIN sal)
        (NP-OB2 (ADJA manigher)
                (ADJA armen)
                (NA sielen))
        (VVINF deren)
        (FRAG-PRN (FM id) ← parenthetical clause with foreign material
                  (FM est)
                  (VVFIN schaden))
)