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--- en:taal:linked_chinees [2020/05/07 15:04] – Edwin Wisse
+++ en:taal:linked_chinees [2020/05/07 21:06] (current) – Edwin Wisse
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 It is almost a cliché that relations are so important in China. But in the language they certainly are. Chinese doesn’t use adjectives like we do. Verbs are not conjugated but just stand there in sentences, being verbs. And of course a word is expressed by a character, the objects of the Chinese language.
-{{ fig:linkeddata:hemd-nl.png?200}} Those character-objects have relations with other character objects. The aforementioned red shirt is a 红色的衬衫. Here are 红 (red, hóng) and 衬衫 (shirt, chènshān) the objects. But calling a red shirt a  红衬衫 would be simply wrong. The two objects must be connected by a predicate 色的 which can be translated as //has colour//. This predicate is formed by two characters 色 (colour, se) and 的 (has, de). The 的 is the ultimate connector. It translate it to //has// here but usually it just disappears when you translate a Chinese sentence to a European one, A verb like  是 (to be, shi) should also be seen as a predicate, not a verb. .
+{{ fig:linkeddata:hemd-en.png?200}} Those character-objects have relations with other character objects. The aforementioned red shirt is a 红色的衬衫. Here are 红 (red, hóng) and 衬衫 (shirt, chènshān) the objects. But calling a red shirt a  红衬衫 would be simply wrong. The two objects must be connected by a predicate 色的 which can be translated as //has colour//. This predicate is formed by two characters 色 (colour, se) and 的 (has, de). The 的 is the ultimate connector. It translate it to //has// here but usually it just disappears when you translate a Chinese sentence to a European one, A verb like  是 (to be, shi) should also be seen as a predicate, not a verb. .
 {{fig:linkeddata:hemd-cn.png?200 }} The linked data aspect of Chinese becomes evident when you try to translate from a western language to Chinese. We build long sentences in german and Dutch, consisting of sentences with sub-sentences, and long words consisting of other words. You just cannot translate a German or Dutch compound sentence into a single Chinese sentence. You must translate it into a series of short sentences all following the subject - predicate - object structure. In effect Chinese //is// linked data with it’s own ontology, ready to represent all Chinese knowledge on the World Wide Semantic Web.