comp #

Universal #

The comp relation (without extension) is used when one has difficulty deciding between comp:obj and comp:obl.

French #

pattern { e: X -[1=comp, !2]-> Y }
  e.label 

Overview #

In French, the comp label is frequently used to annotate reflexive pronouns and other pronominal clitics which contribute to the formation of pronominal verbs when it is difficult to determine the role of the pronoun. In constructions such as Il s’en sort (en: He’s doing well) the pronoun se no longer provides the semantic value of an argument of the verb. However, it fits so well into the typical argument structure that it is hard to recognize that it cannot be de-pronominalized. For this reason, it is annotated with the comp relation.

Deep syntactic features #

In the case of passive reflexive constructions, the pronoun is labelled comp with the deep syntactic feature @pass.

We can also have the deep syntactic feature @expl for the label comp.

More information can be found on the French pronomional verb page or on the page about the annotation of the idiom il y a.