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Is there a published annotation guideline that tags narrator's discourse separately from characters' discourse and records how much the narrator knows compared with the characters, and what has been added for genre texts such as mysteries?

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Wiren & Ek's Annotation Guideline No. 7 (revised, Dec 2021) gives an open, text-readable layered scheme: voice, focalization (unrestricted / internal / external, defined by how much the narrator knows relative to the characters), narrator's discourse, and characters' discourse split into turns and lines with speaker, addressee and a tagged speech-framing construction. It stops short of events, belief and truth (it says so) and files indirect speech under the narrator. Heyns & van Zaanen (WNU 2024) adapt it for mystery novels with FOCALIZATION properties (EMBEDDED, INTERRUPTIVE, DETECTIVE_THOUGHT) and CLUE tags, and report embedded focalization vs simple dialogue as a difficult call.

Wiren & Ek's Annotation Guideline No. 7 (revised, Dec 2021) gives an open, text-readable layered scheme: voice, focalization (unrestricted / internal / external, defined by how much the narrator knows relative to the characters), narrator's discourse, and characters' discourse split into turns and lines with speaker, addressee and a tagged speech-framing construction. It stops short of events, belief and truth (it says so) and files indirect speech under the narrator. Heyns & van Zaanen (WNU 2024) adapt it for mystery novels with FOCALIZATION properties (EMBEDDED, INTERRUPTIVE, DETECTIVE_THOUGHT) and CLUE tags, and report embedded focalization vs simple dialogue as a difficult call. Curator qualifications: Wiren & Ek guideline 7: voice, focalization (narrator knowledge vs characters), narrator vs character discourse with speaker/addressee; no event/belief layer (stated). 8/9 located (E5 not matched by prefix). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Wiren & Ek's Annotation Guideline No. 7 (revised, Dec 2021) gives an open, text-readable layered scheme: voice, focalization (unrestricted / internal / external, defined by how much the narrator knows relative to the characters), narrator's discourse, and characters' discourse split into turns and lines with speaker, addressee and a tagged speech-framing construction. It stops short of events, belief and truth (it says so) and files indirect speech under the narrator. Heyns & van Zaanen (WNU 2024) adapt it for mystery novels with FOCALIZATION properties (EMBEDDED, INTERRUPTIVE, DETECTIVE_THOUGHT) and CLUE tags, and report embedded focalization vs simple dialogue as a difficult call. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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