VIMP Imperatives

MFTE VIMP

Definition

Imperative verb forms.

Detection Rules

pybiber

Base form verb — VB tag. Approximate: includes non-imperative base forms.

cql[pos="VB"]

Requires: pos

mfte

Partial coverage of MFTE’s VIMP heuristics. Captures “let me/us” patterns (line 1065-1071) and sentence-initial comparatives before VB. Full VIMP detection requires sentence-boundary awareness and complex context checks that exceed CQL capabilities.

p1 
cql[word="[Ll]et"] [word="me|us|'s"]
p2 
cql[word="[Bb]etter"] [pos="VB"]
combine: p1 | p2

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

Come!

Look here

Tell me

Sources

  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

Relevant to character speech, especially commands. MFTE uses complex sentence-level heuristics (sentence-initial VB after punctuation, absence of subject pronoun, etc.) that cannot be fully expressed in CQL. The mfte rule covers common patterns but not the full sentence-position logic.

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