[draft] About properties, metaproperties and 2nd order metaproperties
Basics
DDM in DDB1 work with entities of various entity types; these entities have properties.
Entity types
A Statement is an Entity type with the purpose of relating other Entities. All statements (as well as all other entities) have unique IDs, and their original order in the text is preserved, thereby allowing to follow the development of action in the narrative, the interplay of questions and answers, etc.
The other Entity types covered in the data model are:
- Action type
- Concept
- Person
- Group
- Being (typically, animal)
- (Physical) Object
- Location
- Event
- Value
- Text / Text part
- Resource
See https://github.com/DISSINET/InkVisitor.
Properties
The uses of properties include:
- Modelling adjectives concerning actants.
- Instantiating Entities to parent types.
- Defining time and place of action (including in fuzzy terms).
- Recording other adverbials, for example, those concerning the manner of action, circumstances, causes or consequences of an action.