Reported speech

Reported Speech in Spoken Corpora #

Universal #

Reported speech has a feature Reported=Yes on its head. It is generally the comp:obj of a speech verb, such as dire ’to say'.

pattern { X -[comp:obj]-> Y; Y[Reported=Yes] }

French

Reported speech was previously annotated using the syntactic relation parataxis:obj, but this is now considered obsolete.