Semantic Dependency Graphs.

Dependency Grammar has been taken as a formalism for syntactic representation, comparable to close competitors such as phrase structure grammar or categorial grammar. This paper argues that in fact the dependency graphs DGs should--like semantic frames--be seen as a semantic formalism like e.g. FOL, Montague's IL or Discourse Representation Structures. For this, arrows must have semantically interpretable labels and two additional kinds of arrows need to be added: scope arrows and anaphoric arrows.