A word sketch processes the word’s %[collocate|collocates]% and other words in its surroundings. It can be used as a one-page summary of the word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour. The results are organized into categories, called grammatical relations, such as words that serve as an object of the verb, words that serve as a subject of the verb, words that modify the word etc. Some grammatical relations may display usage statistics instead of collocates. Only nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs are supported in most corpora. The collocations which will be included in the analysis are defined by rules specified in the sketch grammar.

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Multiword Sketch — collocations with phrases
The multiword sketch is an extension of the word sketch. It processes the left and right context of a phrase and identifies the collocates of each word in the phrase. The collocations are only extracted from sentences which contain the collocation (phrase) in question. In other words, the collocates only come from contexts where the collocation (phrase) is used. Contexts where the members of the phrase are used on their own are excluded. This makes it possible to only display collocates related to a particular word sense or subject.
The multiword sketch can be accessed in two ways:
From the context menu
Locate the collocate you are interested in, click multiword sketch in the context menu.
MultiWord Sketch
By typing the collocation in the input form
Type the node and the collocate(s) directly in the input form. Their order is not important. Do not type words which are not a node or collocate(s), i.e. only words which would appear in the grammatical relations in the word sketch.
MultiWord Sketch
to get collocations for type
sweetened drinks sweeten drink
grab a drink grab drink
Multiword sketch of sugary drink
MultiWord Sketch