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Concordancing Tagged Text (2)

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Now, we are going to do a concordance on a part of speech. The BNC uses mark-up like this:        

 

<w c5="NN1"...>        

 

to signal singular count nouns. If you want to get all the singular count nouns put

<w c5="NN1" * *>*

as your search word. WordSmith checks whether the angle-brackets are text characters or tag-openers and -closers:        

 

tag_marker_confirmation        

 

Here we answer Yes, and you will get stuff like this:

 

concordance_xml_tagged_with_hidden_tags1

and if you choose to hide the undefined tags using this menu choice:

 

hiding_undefined_tags

 

you get this:

 

concordance_xml_tagged_without_hidden_tags1

If you searched on

<w c5="NN1" * *>love

you'd get only singular count noun instances of the word love (so no verb uses)

 

concordance_xml_tagged_without_hidden_tags2