ToVSPCH To-clause after speech verb
Definition
To-clause preceded by a verb of speech.
Detection Rules
Verb from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (44 items)
ask
asked
asking
asks
claim
claimed
claiming
claims
invite
invited
invites
inviting
promise
promised
promises
promising
remind
reminded
reminding
reminds
request
requested
requesting
requests
said
say
saying
says
taught
teach
teaches
teaching
tell
telling
tells
told
urge
urged
urges
urging
warn
warned
warning
warns
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
ask to
tell to
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version