<sp>

<sp> (speech) contains an individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or verse text. [3.13.2. Core Tags for Drama 3.13. Passages of Verse or Drama 7.2.2. Speeches and Speakers]
Module core
Attributes
att.global
xml:id
n
xml:lang
lim.att.global.fragmentable
part
att.global.rendition
style
rendition
att.global.linking
corresp
copyOf
next
prev
att.global.source
source
att.ascribed.directed
toWhom
att.ascribed
who
Member of
model.divPart
Contained by
core: item note q quote
figures: cell figure
header: change handNote
lim: NB compliment enclosure request
msdescription: origin summary surrogates
namesdates: occupation
textstructure: body div epigraph postscript
May contain
core: cit ellipsis gap l lb lg list milestone note noteGrp p pb q quote speaker
figures: figure table
lim: noteMarker rule
linking: ab linkGrp
namesdates: listObject listOrg listPerson listPlace
transcr: fw metamark
Note
The who attribute on this element may be used either in addition to the speaker element or as an alternative.
Examples

<sp>
   <speaker>The reverend Doctor Opimian</speaker>
   <p>I do not think I have named a single unpresentable fish.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
   <speaker>Mr Gryll</speaker>
   <p>Bream, Doctor: there is not much to be said for bream.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
   <speaker>The Reverend Doctor Opimian</speaker>
   <p>On the contrary, sir, I think there is much to be said for him. In the first place [...]</p>
   <p>Fish, Miss Gryll — I could discourse to you on fish by the hour: but for the present I
      will forbear [...]</p>
</sp>
Source Github

<elementSpec module="core" ident="sp">
   <gloss>speech</gloss>
   <desc>contains an individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or
verse text.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
      <memberOf key="model.divPart"/>
      <memberOf key="att.ascribed.directed"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <sequence>
         <classRef key="model.global" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         <sequence minOccurs="0">
            <elementRef key="speaker"/>
            <classRef key="model.global" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         </sequence>
         <sequence minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <alternate>
               <elementRef key="lg"/>
               <classRef key="model.lLike"/>
               <classRef key="model.pLike"/>
               <classRef key="model.listLike"/>
               <classRef key="model.stageLike"/>
               <classRef key="model.attributable"/>
            </alternate>
            <alternate>
               <classRef key="model.global" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
               <elementRef key="q"/>
            </alternate>
         </sequence>
      </sequence>
   </content>
</elementSpec>