3.1.6 Speech, Drama and Poems

Some Lampeter Corpus texts represent dialogue, and others contain the occasional quoted passage from plays or poems. Therefore, it was necessary to introduce mark-up relevant to these occurrences.

<sp> contains a connected speech passage of one speaker, regardless of whether it is authentic recorded speech or a fictitious rendering of spoken language. Both possibilities are found in the corpus.

<speaker> occurs within <sp> and contains the name or other identifier of the speaker of the respective passage.

<stage> is used in quotations from plays for stage directions or similar non-spoken drama text, e.g. "Matt of the Mint at a Tavern near Newgate, in Company with the rest of his Gang" or "AIR XIX." (MscB1692).

<l> contains a single line of verse. We have not specified whether the line is complete or not.

<lg> contains a whole group of verse lines which belong together, e.g. a stanza.

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