Word

Validate against: http://json-schema.org/schema

Schema ID: http://cdn.digitallinguistics.io/schemas/Word-2.0.0.json

Description

A Word object represents a specific token in a text, rather than to an abstract lexeme (see the Lexeme object for that).

Type: object

Required Properties

  • morphemes
  • transcription

Additional properties: true

Properties

  • Gloss: "gloss"

    Description

    A Leipzig-style gloss for this Word. This does not need to be supplied if it can be generated automatically from the glosses at the morpheme level. May be in multiple orthographies.

    Must be an instance of the MultiLangString schema.

  • Key: "key"

    Description

    A key that uniquely identifies this word token within the Text. The key for a phrase consists of the abbreviation of the text, a period, the number of phrase within the text, another period, and then the number of this word within the phrase (indexing starts at 1). For example, for the fourth word of the third phrase of a text with the abbreviation A, the key would be A.3.4. Keys should be unique within a corpus.

    Type: string

    Regular expression pattern: ^[(a-z)|(A-Z)|(0-9)]+\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,2}$

  • Morphemes / Components: "morphemes"

    Description

    A collection of the components (morphemes, lexicon items) in this Word. Components may be repeated if the same morpheme appears twice in the Word.

    Type: array

    Unique items: false

    Items

    Morpheme

    Must be an instance of the Morpheme schema.

  • Notes: "notes"

    Description

    A collection of notes about this token.

    Type: array

    Unique items: true

    Items

    Note

    Must be an instance of the Note schema.

  • Tags: "tags"

    Description

    A set of tags for this word token.

    Must be an instance of the Tags schema.

  • Transcription: "transcription"

    Description

    A transcription of this word, optionally in multiple orthographies.

    Must be an instance of the MultiLangString schema.

  • Translation: "translation"

    Description

    A translation of this word, optionally in multiple languages/orthographies. Note that the translation is not the same as a gloss. Use the translation field for free, natural language translations of a word; use the gloss field for Leipzig-style glosses only.

    Must be an instance of the MultiLangString schema.

  • URL: "url"

    Description

    A URL where this word may be accessed.

    Must be an instance of the Url schema.