EXMARaLDA DemoKorpusMonty Python: My TheoryMyTheoryMiss Ann Elk is in a TV show to present her theory about the brontosaurus. HIAT (simplified)
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ELK
Anne Elk (Miss!)GuestBritish---unknown---
Good evening.
I have with me • tonight • • Ann Elk Mistress Ann Elk.
• • You
• • have a new theory about the brontosaurus.
Exactly.
What is it?
I mean your/ your new theory.
Yeah.
I am asking.
((clears throat))
Yes now I/ I/ I know it's yours.
Eh • what is it?
That's it, is it?
Well eh this theory of yours appears to have hit
the nail on the head.
Yes.
Thank you very much for coming along to the studio.
Next week Britain's ne
west wasp farm…
Yes thank you very much.
Newest wa…
Yes thank you ((inc.)).
Yes thank you, that's all, thank you.
((inc.))
Ye
s.
(Well) thank you.
Britai
n's newest
wasp farm.
Yeah?
((inc.))˙
No!
• • Miss!
Well, ehm, can I just eh say here Chris for one moment
that I have a new theory about the brontosaurus.
Ehem.
• • •
Oh what is my theory?
Ooh what is my theory that it is!
• • Well, Chris, you may well ask me
what is my theory.
Good for you.
• • My word, yes.
Well Chris, what is it that it is
this theory of mine?
Well, this is what it is.
• My theory • that I have
that is to say which is mine
((0.9s))
is mine.
Well!
What is my ah…
This is it.
• • • ((clears throat))
((coughs))
((coughs))
((coughs))
((coughs))
My theory that belongs to me
is as follows.
((clears throat))
This is how it goes.
((clears throat twice))
The next thing I'm going to say is my theory.
((1.1s))
Ready?
My theory by A Elk brackets miss brackets.
• This theory goes as follows and begins now.
• •
All brontosauruses are thin at one end
• • •
much
much thicker in the middle
• • •
and then thin again at the far
end.
That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me,
and I own it, and what it is too.
Spot on Chris!
And it's mine.
• Thank you, my pleasure, Chris.
It's been a lot of fun.
Sa
ying what my
theory is.
And whose it is.
I have another theory.
Call
ed my second theory.
Or my theory
number two.
Which I could ex
pand (without doubt)
This second theory
• •
which
• with the one that
I have
said
•
forms
the brace of theories that I own
which are mine and which belong to me
((inc.e))
goes like this.
((clears throat))
((laughter, 1,3s))
• • •
((laughter))
((music, occasional laughter, 11s))
((laughter, 3,6s))
((laughter, 9,5s))
((laughter, 2,3s))
((laughter, 3,8))
((laughter, 3,2s))
((laughter))
((laughter))
((laughter, 1,5s))
((laughter, 1,9s))
((laughter, 3,2s))
((laughter, 1,2s))
((laughter, 1,5s))
((laughter, 1,3s))
((laughter, 2,3s))
((laughter, 8s))
((laughter, 7s))
((laughter, 2,2s))
((laughter, 2,8s))
((laughter, 1,4s))
((laughter))
((laughter, 1,3s))
((laughter, 1,9s))
((laughter, 2,1s))
((laughter, 0,9s))
((laughter, 2,1s))
((laughter, 0,9s))
((laughter, 0,9s))
((laughter, 1,4s))
((laughter, 1,2s))
((laughter, 0,4s))
((telephone rings))
((laughter, 0,7s))
((laughter, 4,5s))
fast, staccato
very loud and shrill