Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<event>


<event> (Event) any phenomenon or occurrence, not necessarily vocalized or communicative, for example incidental noises or other events affecting communication.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from comp.spoken, timed)
who supplies an identifier for the agent of the event described, if any. Its value is the identifier of a <participant> or <participant.grp> element in the TEI header.
Datatype: IDREF
Values: Must identify a participant or participant group within the TEI Header
Default: %INHERITED;
iterated (iterated) indicates whether or not the phenomenon is repeated.
Datatype: ( y | n | u )
Legal values are:
y the phenomenon is repeated.
n the phenomenon is atomic.
u unknown or unmarked.
Default: n
desc (description) supplies a conventional representation for the phenomenon.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: a description or representation of the phenomenon chosen from a semi-closed list
Default: #IMPLIED
Example
<event desc="ceiling collapses"/>
Module Declared in file teispok2; Base tag set for Transcribed Speech: enabled by TEI.spoken
Class comp.spoken; timed
Data Description empty
May occur within argument body castList div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epigraph epilogue metDecl performance prologue set u
Declaration
<!ELEMENT event %om.RO; EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST event  
      %a.global;
      %a.timed;
      who IDREF %INHERITED;
      iterated ( y | n | u ) "n"
      desc CDATA #IMPLIED>
See further 11.2.7 Formal Definition; 11.2 Elements Unique to Spoken Texts; 11.2.3 Vocal, Kinesic, Event

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