Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.nucleo

núcleo

The role inside a phrase held by the one element that fixes what kind of phrase it is and that the phrase cannot lose while remaining a phrase of that kind.

The head is the element the rest of a phrase is arranged around, and the three other roles inside a phrase are all defined against it rather than against each other: one determines it, one is required by it, and one narrows it without being required. That is why this record carries no outgoing statements of its own and is instead the target of the three that do. The head is what a phrase is named after, so a phrase whose head is a noun is a nominal phrase whatever else it contains, and it is what the clause reads when it needs a property of the whole phrase: agreement outside the phrase copies the gender and number of the head and not of any other element in it. A phrase may consist of the head alone, which no other role can do. The one place the notion is contested is a phrase headed by a preposition, where a long tradition treats the preposition as the head and another treats it as a link between the phrase and what it attaches to, and this graph adopts the first reading and records it as a convention rather than as a finding.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything
saliencesalience
No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
aliasesaliases
  • metalanguagehead
sourcessources
  • SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1

The level it operates at

function.level

A function is a role something plays. This is the size of the thing whose structure supplies the role.

levellevel
phraseit is a role inside a phrase

Everything joined to this object

One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.

What this object is a kind of

Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.

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  • The role inside a phrase held by the one element that fixes what kind of phrase it is and that the phrase cannot lose while remaining a phrase of that kind.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

Fan-out per dimension

A4

One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.

  • case13 values
  • mood8 values
  • voice8 values
  • aspect7 values
  • aktionsart6 values
  • number6 values
  • person6 values
  • tense6 values
  • comparison4 values
  • evidentiality4 values
  • gender4 values
  • politeness4 values
  • valency4 values
  • animacy3 values
  • definiteness3 values
  • deixis3 values
  • finiteness2 values
  • information structure2 values
  • interrogativity2 values
  • polarity2 values
  • switch-reference2 values

What kinds of this object there are

Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.

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  • The role inside a phrase held by the one element that fixes what kind of phrase it is and that the phrase cannot lose while remaining a phrase of that kind.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

these require this object elsewhere

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain