PLACE YAML source
code: PLACE
biber_number: B4
xiao_number: E72
mfte_code: PLACE
bohmann_number: 131
name: Place adverbials
definition: >-
Adverbs and adverbial expressions of place: here, there, elsewhere, above, below,
nearby, etc.
normalization: finite_verbs
detection:
- requires:
- word
- pos
cql: '[word={words} & pos="RB"]'
words:
- aboard
- above
- abroad
- across
- ahead
- alongside
- anywhere
- around
- ashore
- astern
- away
- backward
- behind
- below
- beneath
- beside
- downhill
- downstairs
- downstream
- downwards
- downwind
- east
- eastward
- elsewhere
- everywhere
- far
- farther
- here
- hereabouts
- indoors
- inland
- inshore
- inside
- locally
- near
- nearby
- north
- northward
- nowhere
- offline
- offshore
- online
- outdoors
- outside
- overboard
- overland
- overseas
- somewhere
- south
- southward
- there
- thereabout
- underfoot
- underground
- underneath
- uphill
- upstairs
- upstream
- upward
- west
- westward
refines: RB
description: Default place adverbs rule. Refines RB.
- source: mfte
requires:
- word
- pos
- head
parts:
p1:
cql: '[word={words_ambiguous} & pos="RB"]'
p2:
cql: '[word={words_unambiguous} & pos!="NNP"]'
combine: "(p1 | p2) & !EMPH"
words:
ambiguous:
- above
- across
- around
- away
- behind
- below
- beside
- far
- inside
- outside
- there
unambiguous:
- aboard
- abroad
- ahead
- alongside
- anywhere
- ashore
- astern
- beneath
- downhill
- downstairs
- downstream
- downwards
- east
- farther
- here
- hereabouts
- indoors
- inland
- inshore
- locally
- near
- nearby
- north
- nowhere
- offline
- online
- outdoors
- overboard
- overland
- overseas
- somewhere
- south
- underfoot
- underground
- underneath
- uphill
- upstairs
- upstream
- west
refines: RB
description: >-
MFTE place adverbs. Ambiguous words (also prepositions or particles)
restricted to RB tag. Unambiguous spatial adverbs match any POS
except NNP (proper nouns like "North"). EMPH consumes "far" before
PLACE in MFTE processing order.
- source: pybiber
requires:
- word
- pos
cql: '[word={words} & pos="R.*|IN"]'
words:
- aboard
- above
- abroad
- across
- ahead
- alongside
- around
- ashore
- astern
- away
- behind
- below
- beneath
- beside
- downhill
- downstairs
- downstream
- east
- far
- hereabouts
- indoors
- inland
- inshore
- inside
- locally
- near
- nearby
- north
- nowhere
- outdoors
- outside
- overboard
- overland
- overseas
- south
- underfoot
- underground
- underneath
- uphill
- upstairs
- upstream
- west
description: >-
pybiber's blob regex `_r\S*` matches any tag starting with R
(RB, RBR, RBS, RP) plus `_i\S*` for IN. The R-family includes
particles (RP) like "behind" in "left behind".
sources:
- biber_1988
- mfte
- pybiber
- xiao_2009
- grieve_2023
- bohmann_2019
examples:
- text: It's not _far_ to go.
source: le_foll_2024
- text: I'll get it from _upstairs_.
source: le_foll_2024
- text: It's _downhill_ all the way.
source: le_foll_2024
- text: It's _there_ not _here_.
source: le_foll_2024