[CWB] cqpweb question

[Graham Ranger]

Brilliant! What a great tool! Thank you, Stephanie. I didn't realise 
that the constraint could be formulated with hw and the query with pos, 
for instance.
Best wishes,
Graham.

Le 08/04/2026 à 09:00, Stephanie Evert a écrit :
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> Hi Graham,
>
> your query is already almost what you want, you just have to drop the 
> restriction to the single lemma "laugh".
>
> n1:[pos="VV."] []{1,3} n2:[pos="NN."] :: n1.hw=n2.hw
>
> Mind you, this will be slow as it has to check every possible 
> verb-noun combination and test whether the two lemmas happen to be 
> identical.
>
> Labels like n1 and n2 can only be attached to token descriptions and 
> reference a corpus position, so you can't just store the value of 
> n1.hw and use it for the comparison later. But in most cases, this is 
> not a major limitation.
>
> Alternative version of the query:
>
> n1:[pos="VV."] []{1,3} [hw=n1.hw & pos="NN."]
>
> I prefer your version with the global constraint, though, because I 
> find it easier to read.
>
> Best,
> Stephanie
>
>> On 7 Apr 2026, at 08:22, Graham Ranger -- UAPV via CWB 
>> <cwb at sslmit.unibo.it> wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all,
>> This question concerns the cqp syntax available on the cqpweb interface.
>> I'm trying to look for constructions including cognate objects. This:
>>
>> n1:[hw="laugh" & pos="VV."] []{1,3} n2:[hw="laugh" & 
>> pos="NN."]::n1.hw=n2.hw
>>
>> will work to give me things like "He laughed a mirthless laugh", 
>> which is good.
>> What I'd really like, though, is to be able to define a variable for 
>> the first hw which coincides with the variable for the second hw, in 
>> order to get things like "Lucy smiled a small tight-fisted smile", 
>> "Jamie grins his tired grin", etc. I've tried with [] and n1 
>> n2::n1=n2, and with regular expressions, working on word and  pos as 
>> well as hw and trying to match partial strings, but either I'm 
>> missing something or cqpweb does not allow this sort of query.
>> Any help would as always be very much appreciated!
>> Best wishes,
>> Graham.
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