A semantic analysis framework of two consecutive Thai serial verbs

Abstract

Analysis of Thai serial verbs is a difficult problem because there are many types of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and they can occur in various syntactic patterns, e.g. verb-object, verb-adverb, verb-preposition. To understand the meaning of a sentence containing SVCs, the syntax and semantic of SVCs must be resolved first. Therefore, the research proposes the semantic analysis framework concerning two consecutive Thai serial verbs. This framework analyzes the syntactic patterns and related words of SVCs to find useful information for semantic analysis. The main processes of this framework are separated into two parts. The first part is syntactic analysis using Thai phrase structure grammars, and the second part is semantic analysis using the relation analysis theorems. The result shows that this technique can analyze the semantic binding patterns of SVCs by considering syntactic patterns and relations of related words. Furthermore, the semantic interpretations of SVCs can be determined by syntactic patterns, related words and the first verb of consecutive SVCs