MIKROKOSMOS

General Instructions for Writing a TMR

1. Read and translate the text, if it is not already in English.

2. Set up a TMR shell (following the TMR Outline given in Section 2.4.).

3. Type in the first sentence of the text. Identify and gloss the main clause of the first sentence, and look for the main event. One useful technique is to analyze the content of the sentence by paraphrasing the sentence; then try to represent the meaning.
   1. Establish head for the main event and fill in all possible slots. (See TMR Outline).

   2. Look for the next event (it may be in the next clause or it may be a filler for a slot under the first head) and repeat the process.

   3. Events that occupy slots (usually the theme slot) under a head are established as heads in their own right. Objects, if they have attributes, are broken out and the attributes listed under them.

4. Attitudes that are heads are broken out in the TMR body; those that come under heads in the body of the text are glossed and broken out at the end of the TMR body (see Appendix III: Attitude Definitions and Examples, and Appendix I: TMR Notes, item (4)).

5. Scan the text for temporal relations (an event occurring at, after, or during another event). Temporal relations are listed in the order that they occur in the text. Gloss the temporal relations for the clearer understanding of the reader, and break them out as indicated in the TMR Outline.

6. List all domain relations from the text. Each domain relation is glossed and broken out (see Appendix IX: Domain Relations Definitions and Examples and Appendix I: TMR Notes, item (8)).

7. List all coreferences from the text. (see Appendix I: TMR Notes, item (7)).

8. Fill in the "table of contents" and complete the "statement section".