[CWB] Bug in the Macro Language?

[Richard Eckart]

Hi there,

I tried to use prototypes to generalize my two passive-verbform  
macros into a single one, but I get errors and problems.

1) The prototype values do not seem to allow quotes for something  
like $1="la le lo".
2) When I try to specify ".*" or .* I get a Syntax Error.

I'm using Version 2.2.b99 (from SourceForge) on OS X.

# Find passived of a particular verb.
#
# Positional parameters
#	pos	Part-of-Speech (Penn Tagset as in TreeTagger)
#
# Arguments
#	$0	Positional attribute to match (default: word)
#	$1	Pattern (default: any)
#
# Example
#	/passive[lemma, know]

MACRO passive($0=word $1=.*)
     (
		(
		    [pos="(V([BH]|(B[PZDNG])))"]
		    []{0,3}
		    [pos="VVN"]
		)
		|
		(
		    [pos="VH[ZP]"]
		    []{0,3}
		    [pos="VBN"]
		)
     )
     [$0="$1" & pos="VVN"]
;


Richard Eckart

Darmstadt University of Technology
Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Department of English Linguistics

Hochschulstrasse 1
64289 Darmstadt
Germany