Il y a #

There are three possible annotations for il y a in French:

• Il y a as an adposition
• Il y a as an expletive construction
• Il y a as a locative pronoun

Il y a as an adposition #

Sometimes, il y a is used to express a temporal argument.

pattern {
  N1 [form="il"]; N2 [lemma="y"]; N3 [lemma="avoir"]; N1 << N2; N2 << N3;
  N3-[comp]-> N2; 
  N3-[subj]-> N1
}

Il y a as an expletive construction #

Sometimes, il y a is used to express an expletive construction.

pattern : N1 [form=“il”]; N2 [lemma=“y”]; N3 [lemma=“avoir”]; N1 « N2; N2 « N3 ; N3-[comp@expl]->N2 ; N3-[subj@expl]-> N1

Il y a with y as a locative pronoun #

Sometimes, the y is a locative pronoun which express a location in the il y a expression

pattern : N1 [form=“il”]; N2 [lemma=“y”]; N3 [lemma=“avoir”]; N1 « N2; N2 « N3 ; N3-[mod]->N2 ; N3-[subj]-> N1