Annotating Adjectives, Adverbs, and Relative Clauses

Predicative adjectives are annotated much like verbs:

Attributive adjectives and verbs behave syntactically like modifiers, but they are also predicates assigning the modifiee a role. For the modification relation, we use the META frame, assigning the modifying predicate the scene role and – implicitly – the modifiee the participant role. We then introduce an additional semantic dependency (we call it a backlink) from the modifying predicate to the modifiee to annotate the role that the former assigns to the latter. For example:

Relative clauses work very similarly: they modify a noun but also act as predicates assigning that noun a role. Again, we use SCENE for the acl:relcl relation, and a backlink to the modified noun. This is in addition to the dependency to any relative pronoun, which has the same role.