this paper I will discuss a framework for semantics which allows us to record truth-conditional and compositional analyses as dependency-style corpus annotations in a direct and fine-grained fashion. This method eliminates the need for a semantic representation formalism by decomposing semantic information into simple statements about (word or morpheme) tokens. A collection of such data would form a new kind of linguistic treebank. The main purpose of this article is to show that the present approach makes it possible to combine formal semantics and corpus-oriented study of language use in new and interesting ways. The methodology of this framework, which I call Token Dependency Semantics (TDS, Dahllf [4]), is in several respects different from the common one(s) in traditional formal semantics. TDS nevertheless delivers a fairly conventional (but ontologically restrained) analysis of truth-conditional meaning