CTT stands for Coded Text Tabulated. It is a human-readable ASCII file which offers an overview of the clause atom hierarchy. The information is displayed in nine fields of fixed width, which are the following.
- Verse Label
- Person/Number/Gender of the predicate
- Clause Atom Type of the daughter
- Indication of the mother
- Text Type
- Paragraph Number
- Clause Atom Number
- Tabulation and Subtypes
- Hierarchy with surface text and parsing labels
A list of the clause atom types can be found, for instance, at https://etcbc.github.io/bhsa/features/typ.
This can be either:
- the clause atom type of the mother, for example
WayX; - the marker
[Q], which indicates that the mother introduced direct speech; - the marker
[R], which means that this atom is the root of the clause atom hierarchy; - a clause constituent relation, for instance
[adjunct].
Text type is a feature of a clause. In clauses that consist of more than one clause atom, the value for text type is repeated with every subsequent clause atom of the clause. The values are constructed in a cumulative manner. The clause L> T>KLW M-KL <Y H-GN in Genesis 3:1, for instance, is a quotation within a quotation in a narrative passage, and therefore marked NQQ. Text type is a concatenation of any of the following characters.
| Sign | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ? | Unknown |
| D | Discursive |
| N | Narrative |
| Q | Quotation |
The two subtypes are indicated by two characters. The first subtype indicates whether the clause atom effectively contains a predicate, and if not, why. The character codes are summarised in the table below.
| Sign | Meaning |
|---|---|
| . | empty |
| c | casus pendens |
| d | defective |
| l | ellipsis |
| m | macrosyntactic sign |
| r | reopening |
| v | vocative |
| x | extraposition |
The second subtype indicates the status of the clause atom in the text. The character codes are summarised in the table below.
| Sign | Meaning |
|---|---|
| # | new paragraph |
| . | empty |
| N | no connection |
| \ | downward connection |
| e | embedding |
| p | proleptic ellipsis |
| q | direct speech |
The horizontal lines group clauses of the same text type, where
----- is used for narrative and discursive blocks and =====
for direct speech blocks. The borders are condensed, that is,
when they coincide, only the outer border is drawn.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
<ap> | Apposition |
<cj> | Link |
<pa> | Parallel |
<ss> | Suffix specification |
<sp> | Specification |
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
<..> | Unknown |
<Aj> | Adjunct |
<Co> | Complement |
<Cj> | Conjunction |
<Ep> | Enclitic personal pronoun |
<Xs> | Existence with subject suffix |
<eX> | Existence |
<Fr> | Fronted element |
<Ij> | Interjection |
<Is> | Interjection with subject suffix |
<Lo> | Locative |
<Mo> | Modifier |
<Ms> | Modifier with subject suffix |
<NC> | Negative copula |
<Ns> | Negative copula with subject suffix |
<Ng> | Negation |
<Ob> | Object |
<Pj> | Predicative adjunct |
<PS> | Predicate complement with subject suffix |
<PC> | Predicate complement |
<Pr> | Predicate |
<PO> | Predicate with object suffix |
<Ps> | Predicate with subject suffix |
<po> | Participle with object suffix |
<Qu> | Question |
<Re> | Relative |
<Su> | Subject |
<sc> | Supplementary constituent |
<Ti> | Time reference |
<Vo> | Vocative |