Literary text ontologization of as a method for formal representation of narrative semantics (based on the novella “Monday Begins on Saturday” by A. and B. Strugatsky)

The research aims to develop a procedure for the formal representation of literary text semantics through a domain ontology, using the novella “Monday Begins on Saturday” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as a case study. In this article, ontologization is treated as the translation of semantic units from the fictional world (actants, objects, spaces, and events) and the relationships between them into a formal RDF/OWL model linked to specific textual nominations. The object of the study is the semantic organization of a literary text, while the subject is the ontological modeling of narrative entities and events along with their typed connections. The scientific novelty lies in the development and description of a step-by-step (operational) protocol for the ontologization of literary texts – ranging from the fragmentation and recording of entities/events and their links in tabular format to the construction of a full RDF/OWL model. The results demonstrate that the proposed procedure (fragmenting the text into episodes, tabular recording of instances with unique identifiers, and building the RDF/OWL ontology in Protege) allows for translating research questions into verifiable queries and obtaining reproducible samples using SPARQL. For example, it enables the extraction of linked episodes, the reconstruction of movement trajectories, and the comparison of role configurations and event types. A domain ontology of the fictional world was created, identifying and classifying 836 units. This demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed approach for further scaling to mini-corpora of plot-related works and expanded models of authorial universes.