Mapping Sentences to Case Frames

Abstract

This paper describes a range of phenomena that a case frame system should be able to handle and proposes generalizations to capture this behavior which are formulated as a set of production-like rules. These rules allow the possible surface orders of cases found in English declarative sentences to be generated from a case frame. This is important for the implementation of a case frame builder described here which requires the ability to determine what cases in a case frame can appear in a grammatical role. The appendix contains an in detail survey of some English verbs which illustrate the types of mapping found in English.