Contexted Clauses Approaches to Detect Entailment in The Da Vinci Code Movie
Condoravdi, 2002: 5. Therefore, the examples and explanations of contexted clause happened in each type of entailment are presented in the following.
1 Contexted Clauses Applied in One-way Entailment
The example of contexted clause applied in on-way entailment is shown in the following datum.
Leigh Teabing: Robert, no words. On your knees. Do it. No, I mean it. Down.
Not you. No, my dear, you… Youre my MIRACLE
, Sophie. Youre the guardian of The Grail.
Datum 52 Contexted clause is applied as the second sentence which is Youre the
guardian of the Grail holds the fact of the previous sentence. Thus, one-way
entailment is reflected on the bold sentences because if Naveu is the guardian of The Grail, she must be a miracle for Teabing.
However if she is Taebing’s
miracle, she does not necessarily to be the guardian of The Grail. The flattening
can be seen from this phenomenon as the context of miracle is derived into the guardian of The Grail.
For Teabing, Naveu is his miracle as she is the guardian of The Grail since he has been looking for the guardian of The Grail in his entire life.
Therefore, Teabing stresses the word miracle as he wants to point out that Naveu is the guardian of the Grail which becomes his miracle, and Naveu ought to
understand how important she is for him. Thus, the order of entailment here can be seen from the stressed word which indicates foregrounding order.
2 Contexted Clauses Applied in Two-wayMutual Entailment
The application of contexted clause approach in two-waymutual entailment is shown in the following table.
Leigh Teabing: Mary Magdalene lived out her days in hiding. And the
zealots pursued her still even in death, trying to destroy
proof of her existence. But she always had her
KNIGHTS. Brave men sworn to defend her.
Datum 44 But she always had her KNIGHTS
can be derived into several sentences following the context of this sentence. One of the sentences originated from the
first thickened sentence is Brave men sworn to defend her. This derivation process indicates the application of contexted clause. However, the main sentence and the
second sentence have mutual facts in which the truths of both sentences follow one another. As a result, She always had her KNIGHTS paraphrases Brave men
sworn to defend her since both has two-way entailment relationship. If she always
had her knights is true; the Brave men sworn to defend her is also true and vice
versa. Teabing stresses the word knights as he will give an explanation about it on the following sentence. Therefore, the first sentence is explained more on the
second sentence in which flattening happens. The occurrence of flattening triggers the application of contexted clause approach to detect the entailment.
3 Contexted Clauses Applied in Negative Entailment
Longdon: Constantine DID NOT create Jesus divinity. He simply sanctioned an already widely held idea.
Datum 37 Longdon tells Naveu that Constantine did not create Jesus divinity, but he
simply sanctioned an already widely held idea. Therefore, did not create Jesus’
divinity has the same understanding as simply sectioned the already widely idea.
The idea of first sentence is flattened in the second sentence because when Longdon says Constantine did not create Jesus divinity, he also commits the fact
of Constantine simply sanctioned an already widely held idea. This occurrence of flattening triggers the entailment between the sentences to be detected by using
contexted clause approach. 4
Contexted Clauses Applied in Metaphorical Entailment The example of the application of contexted clause approach in
metap horical entailment can be seen from Sister Sandrine‟s utterances in the
following datum.
Leigh Teabing: You and I, Robert, have observed history. Time has been our glass.
We are in history now. Living it. Datum 46
Sir Leigh Teabing tells Longdon about history. The relationship between the idea of history and time in both sentences triggers the correlation background
between them. Moreover, the similarity understanding in the background affects the emergence of entailment. In line with the order, the approach of entailment is
also caused by the background context; both sentences contain the same context, and explain one another. That is why contexted clause employed. Sir Leigh
Teabing‟s utterance shows that background order constructs the entailment in his sentences. The entailment between the bold sentences can be seen as both
sentences have metaphorical relation. The word time in Time has been our glass means history because history deals with time.