Syntactic labels

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In some language pairs, shallow syntax tags are used to improve disambiguation, or allow tighter rules to be written. For example, disambiguating verb phrase co-ordinators from noun phrase co-ordinators lets you write rules to merge two co-ordinated NPs.

Example

Standard syntax tags

These are the uniform tags used in many Giellatekno projects.

Tag Description
@←SUBJ Subject, head verb to the left
@SUBJ→ Subject, head verb to the right
@←OBJ Direct object, head verb to the left
@OBJ→ Direct object, head verb to the right
@←IOBJ Indirect object, head verb to the left
@IOBJ→ Indirect object, head verb to the right
@→N Noun modifier, head noun to the right
@N← Noun modifier, head noun to the left
@→A Adjective modifier, head noun to the right
@A← Adjective modifier, head noun to the left
@IM
@SPRED Subject predicate
@←SPRED Subject predicate, head verb
@SPRED→
@OPRED
@←OPRED
@OPRED→
@+FAUXV Finite auxiliary verb
@-FAUXV Non-finite auxiliary verb
@+FMAINV Finite main verb
@-FMAINV Non-finite main verb
@-FSUBJ→
@-F←OBJ
@-FOBJ→
@SPRED←OBJ
@-FADVL
@←ADVL Adverbial modifier, head to the left
@ADVL→ Adverbial modifier, head to the right
@ADVL Adverbial modifier
@P← Complement of a preposition
@CNP Local conjunction or subjunction
@CVP Conjunction or subjunction that joins finite-verb phrases
@→CS
@CNP-VP Ambiguous co-ordinator
@APP
@IMV Infinite main verb
@ICL-ADVL Non-finite subclause ...
@ICL-AUX← "right" argument of auxiliary (?)
@ICL-OBJ Non-finite subclause ...
@ICL-STA Non-finite subclause ...
@HNOUN Noun phrase fragment
@X No analysis

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