In this paper, we describe NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation
Language), a
language designed for representing, in a standardized way, the semantic
content
(the ‘meaning’) of complex narrative texts. After having
introduced informally the four ‘components’ (specialized sub-languages)
of NKRL, we will describe (some of) the data structures proper to each
of them, trying to show that the NKRL coding retains the main informational
elements of
the original narrative expressions. We will then focus on an important
subset of NKRL, the
so-called AECS sub-language, showing in particular that the operators of
this sub-language
can be used to represent some sorts of ‘plural’ expressions.