Manual


We deal here with interjections like yes, no and please and their foreign-language equivalents.

When forming a complete utterances by themselves, these have category S[intj]:

Please
S[intj]
!
S[intj]\S[intj]
S[intj]
< 0

Likewise if they appear as the object of a speech verb (treat them as direct speech even if there are no quotation marks):

Say
(S[b]\NP)/S[intj]
yes
S[intj]
S[b]\NP
> 0
!
(S[b]\NP)\(S[b]\NP)
S[b]\NP
< 0

If they appear next to a another sentence, VP, or NP, treat them as modifiers:

Please
(S\NP)/(S\NP)
stay
S[b]\NP
S[b]\NP
> 0
Caffè
N
NP
*
,
(NP\NP)/(NP\NP)
per
(NP\NP)/NP
favore
N
NP
*
NP\NP
> 0
NP\NP
> 0
NP
< 0