edu.mit.jverbnet.data.syntax
Interface ISyntaxArgDesc

All Known Subinterfaces:

ISyntaxArgDesc.ISyntaxArgDescBuilder

All Known Implementing Classes:

SyntaxArgDesc, SyntaxArgDesc.SyntaxArgDescBuilder

public interface ISyntaxArgDesc

Description of a syntactic argument.

Since:

JVerbnet 1.0.0

Version:

1.2.0

Author:

Mark A. Finlayson

Nested Class Summary

static interface

ISyntaxArgDesc.ISyntaxArgDescBuilder Allows an immutable syntax argument to constructed piece by piece, and then instantiated with an argument to its parent.

Method Summary

INounPhraseType	getNounPhraseType() If the getType() method returns SyntaxArgType.NP, this method will return a noun phrase type.
ISyntaxDesc	getParent() Returns the parent of this argument
ISelRestrictions<? extends IRestrType>	getSelRestrictions() Returns the selectional restrictions for this argument.
SyntaxArgType	getType() Returns the type of the syntactic argument.
java.lang.String	getValue() Returns the value of the syntactic argument.

Method Detail

getParent

ISyntaxDesc getParent()

Returns the parent of this argument

Returns:

the parent of this argument, never null.

Since:

JVerbnet 1.2.0

getType

SyntaxArgType getType()

Returns the type of the syntactic argument. Will never be null.

Returns:

the non-null type of the syntactic argument

Since:

JVerbnet 1.0.0

getValue

java.lang.String getValue()

Returns the value of the syntactic argument. May be null.

Returns:

the possibly null value of the syntactic argument

Since:

JVerbnet 1.0.0

getNounPhraseType

INounPhraseType getNounPhraseType()

If the getType() method returns SyntaxArgType.NP, this method will return a noun phrase type. Otherwise it will return null.

Returns:

null if the type of the argument is not a noun phrase; otherwise a noun phrase type

Since:

JVerbnet 1.0.0

getSelRestrictions

ISelRestrictions<? extends IRestrType> getSelRestrictions()

Returns the selectional restrictions for this argument. Will never return null.

Returns:

the selection restrictions for this argument

Since:

JVerbnet 1.0.0