Annotation Model for morphosyntactic (pos) annotations of the Brown Corpus 2008/05/23 created 2010/02/16 updated Christian Chiarcos, chiarcos@uni-potsdam.de The word "not" is tagged *, which is joined to the verb tag in the case of contracted forms. This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. I, we, they, you "many", "several", "next" first, 2nd These are indefinite pronouns, compounds of "any-", "every-", "no-", and "some-", e.g. everybody, nothing.They are tagged as PN, or PN$ if they have the possessive suffix -'s. This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. This is the verb "do", whether serving as auxiliary or as full verb. These are positive adjectives. very, fairly how, where, when here then, indoors These are common nouns or mass noun in ther head position. These are coordinating conjunctions, e.g. "and", "or", etc. being This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. been This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. This is a «portmanteau» tag RP (for «adverb or particle») to the ten words "about", "across", "down", "in", "off", "on", "out", "over", "through", and "up", except when they are functioning as prepositions, when they receive the normal preposition tag IN. enough, indeed This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. These are semantically superlative adjective, e.g. "chief", "top". This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. did pos These are verbs in the base form, regardless of syntactic function. The inflected forms of normal verbs are marked with the suffix tags Z (3rd. singular), D (past tense), N (past participle), and G (present participle/gerund). This is the verb "have", whether serving as auxiliary or as full verb. This is the infinitive marker "to". These are words occurring as constituents of titles, e.g. of books, plays, corporations, government agencies, etc., are given their normal tag with the addition of the hyphenated tag -TL. In most cases these words are capitalized, except for function-words such as prepositions, conjunctions, and sometimes pronouns. Some examples: the United States of America VBN-TL NNS-TL IN-TL NP-TL Gulliver's Travels NP$-TL NNS-TL But the titles Mr , Mrs., and Miss and Sir have been tagged as proper noun. These rae foreign words. These are comparative adjectives. These are interrogatives and relatives which begin with WP; subject forms are tagged WPS and object forms WPO, e.g. "whose". one, two, 2, etc. These are interjections or exclamations of various sorts, which have no syntactic function; they occur mostly in the dialogue of the fictional samples. had This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. what, which This is the verb "be", whether serving as auxiliary or as full verb. This is a class, we inserted to structure the tagset. This is the existential subject "there". These are personal pronouns. Personal pronouns have tags beginning with PP, followed by one or more letters indicating case, concord, and sometimes number.Reflexive/intensive pronouns (e.g. "myself") are tagged PPL if singular and PPLS (e.g. "ourselves") if plural, with no distinction for case. PPO is the used tag for objective personal pronouns, e.g. "me", "him", "it", "them". These are subordinators, e.g. "since", "because", "if", "although". had These are prepositions, e.g. These are proper nouns or parts of name phrases. quite, rather This tag is used for words occurring in headline. It is hyphenated to the regular tag. These are modal auxiliaries, regardless of tense, e.g. "can", "should", "will". present participle or gerund cited word (hyphenated after regular tag) how either a, the, no verb, present participle/gerund RBR VBG WDT VBZ VBN JJR BEN WRB QLP HV nominative wh- pronoun, e.g. "who", "which", "that" WPS HL NP$ possessive singular proper noun HVZ BEG are BER DO . . ; ? ! "either" DTX

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NPS$ possessive plural proper noun HVN singular adverbial noun NR DOD PP$ possessive personal pronoun, e.g. "my", "our" BE ( ( DTI singular or plural determiner, e.g. "some", "any" HVG MD RP RBT TO JJT morphologically superlative adjective, e.g. "biggest" : : JJ is BEZ ) ) singular determiner, e.g. "this", "that" DT PN$ QL CD DOZ BEDZ was OD am BEM half, all ABN CS NN singular or mass noun AP plural noun NNS WP$ WQL RN * not, n't, * NN$ possessive singular noun CC PPL singular reflexive/intensive personal pronoun, e.g. "myself" semantically superlative adjective, e.g. "chief", "top" JJS FW objective personal pronoun, e.g. "me", "him", "it", "them" PPO second nominal possessive pronoun, e.g. "mine", "ours" PP$$ NC VB -- -- VBD possessive plural noun NNS$ plural proper noun NPS PPSS other nominative personal pronouns, e.g. "I", "we", "they", "you" EX HVD IN BED were 3.ps nominative pronouns, e.g. "he", "she", "it", "one" PPS both ABX plural adverbial noun NRS PN , , objective wh- pronoun, e.g. "whom", "which", "that" WPO plural reflexive/intensive personal pronoun, e.g. "ourselves" PPLS singular proper noun NP DTS plural determiner, e.g. "these", "those" TL ABL UH