{"id":165,"date":"2024-06-07T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/writingacrosslanguages\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:29:55","slug":"technical-difficulties-and-first-results-of-annotating-multilingual-sentences-in-the-moors-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/writingacrosslanguages\/2024\/06\/07\/technical-difficulties-and-first-results-of-annotating-multilingual-sentences-in-the-moors-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Difficulties and First Results of Annotating Multilingual Sentences in &#8222;The Moor&#8217;s Account&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, I have been finding this work very interesting, getting a new perspective on literature. However, I encountered some technical difficulties while having Google Collab analyse my sentences. After three sentences, it told me I had reached my free limit and would have to purchase Collab Pro. This is probably because I tried to save my results by opening a new file for every sentence. Thus, I have only worked through a couple of examples so far, taken from the novel <em>The Moor\u2019s Account <\/em>\u00a0by Laila Lalami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first sentence I had annotated was, &#8222;When I said, Bawuus ni kwiamoja, one of the women inevitably corrected me, Ni bawuus kwiamoja.&#8220; (Lalami 175). Both times the words are used in the sentence, Collab tagged them as proper nouns, as if they were all names. The phrase is not translated in the novel, but the correction is as follows: \u201cin Capoque [&#8230;] the doer and the done-to were spoken of before the deed itself\u201d (ibid.). This means that, presumably, \u201cNi\u201d and \u201cbawuus\u201d are the doer and the done-to, while \u201ckwiamoja\u201d is a verb. It is very difficult to research this language, however; I suppose it is not spoken anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another sentence I let Collab process was, \u201cI whispered Ayat al-Kursi to myself&#8220; (123). \u201cAyat\u201d, \u201cal\u201d, and \u201cKursi\u201d are all tagged as proper nouns, which is acceptable, I believe, as the words refer to a specific verse in the Quran. In the dependency analysis, however, it says that \u201cKursi\u201d is dependent on the word \u201cwhispered\u201d and the major part of a compound (dobj).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, I will be able to go through more sentences and I am excited for the next steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I have been finding this work very interesting, getting a new perspective on literature. However, I encountered some technical difficulties while having Google Collab analyse my sentences. 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