Acronyms Flashcards
nsubj
Nominal subject
A nominal subject (nsubj) is a non-clausal constituent in the subject position of an active verb.
nsubjpass
Nominal subject (passive) A nominal passive subject (nsubjpass) is a non-clausal constituent in the subject position of a passive verb.
csubj
Clausal subject
A clausal subject (csubj) is a clause in the subject position of an active verb.
csubjpass
Clausal subject (passive) A clausal passive subject (csubjpass) is a clause in the subject position of a passive verb.
agent
Agent An agent (agent) is the complement of a passive verb that is the surface subject of its active form.
expl
Expletive An expletive (expl) is an existential there in the subject position.
dobj
Direct object
A direct object (dobj) is a noun phrase that is the accusative object of a (di)transitive verb.
dative
Dative A dative (dative) is a nominal or prepositional object of dative-shifting verb.
attr
Attribute An attribute (attr) is a noun phrase that is a non-VP predicate usually following a copula verb.
oprd
Object predicate
An object predicate (oprd) is a non-VP predicate in a small clause that functions like the predicate of an object.
ccomp
Clausal complement
A clausal complement (ccomp) is a clause with an internal subject that modifies the head of an ADJP|ADVP|NML|NP|WHNP|VP|SINV|SQ.
xcomp
Open clausal complement
An open clausal complement (xcomp) is a clause without an internal subject that modifies the head of an ADJP|ADVP|VP|SINV|SQ.
acomp
Adjectival complement
An adjectival complement (acomp) is an adjective phrase that modifies the head of a VP|SINV|SQ, that is usually a verb.
appos
Appositional modifier
An appositional modifier (appos) of an NML|NP is a noun phrase immediately preceded by another noun phrase, which gives additional information to its preceding noun phrase.
acl
Clausal modifier
A finite or non-finite clausal modifier (acl) is either an infinitival modifier is an infinitive clause or phrase that modifies the head of a noun phrase, or a participial modifier is a clause or phrase whose head is a verb in a participial form (e.g., gerund, past participle) that modifies the head of a noun phrase, or a complement.
relcl
Releative clause modifier
A relative clause modifier (relcl) is a either relative clause or a reduced relative clause that modifies the head of an NML|NP|WHNP.
det
Determiner A determiner (det) is a word token whose pos tag is DT|WDT|WP that modifies the head of a noun phrase.
predet
Pre-determiner A predeterminer (predet) is a word token whose pos tag is PDT that modifies the head of a noun phrase.
nummod
Numeric modifier
A numeric modifier (nummod) is any number or quantifier phrase that modifies the head of a noun phrase.
amod
Adjectival modifier
An adjectival modifier (amod) is an adjective or an adjective phrase that modifies the meaning of another word, usually a noun.
poss
Possession modifier
A possession modifier (poss) is either a possessive determiner (PRP$) or a NML|NP|WHNP containing a possessive ending that modifies the head of a ADJP|NML|NP|QP|WHNP.
nmod
Modifier of nominal
A modifier of nominal (nmod) is any unclassified dependent that modifies the head of a noun phrase.
advmod
Adverbial modifier
An adverbial modifier (advmod) is an adverb or an adverb phrase that modifies the meaning of another word.
advcl
Adverbial clause modifier
An adverbial clause modifier (advcl) is a clause that acts like an adverbial modifier.
neg
Negation modifier
A negation modifier (neg) is an adverb that gives negative meaning to its head.
npmod
Noun phrase as adverbial modifier
An adverbial noun phrase modifier (npmod) is a noun phrase that acts like an adverbial modifier.
pobj
Object of a preposition
An object of a preposition (pobj) is a noun phrase that modifies the head of a prepositional phrase, which is usually a preposition but can be a verb in a participial form such as VBG.
pcomp
Complement of a preposition
A complement of a preposition (pcomp) is any dependent that is not a pobj but modifies the head of a prepositional phrase.
conj
Conjunct A conjunct (conj) is a dependent of the leftmost conjunct in coordination.
cc
Coordinating conjunction
A coordinating conjunction (cc) is a dependent of the leftmost conjunct in coordination.
preconj
Pre-correlative conjunction
A pre-correlative conjunction (preconj) is the first part of a correlative conjunction that becomes a dependent of the first conjunct in coordination.
prep
Prepositional modifier
A prepositional modifier (prep) is any prepositional phrase that modifies the meaning of its head.
aux
Auxiliary An auxiliary (aux) is an auxiliary or modal verb that gives further information about the main verb (e.g., tense, aspect).
auxpass
Auxiliary (passive)
A passive auxiliary (auxpass) is an auxiliary verb, be, become, or get, that modifies a passive verb.
compound
Compound A compound (compound) is either a noun modifying the head of noun phrase, a number modifying the head of quantifier phrase, or a hyphenated word (or a preposition modifying the head of the prepositioanl phrase).
prt
Particle A particle (prt) is a preposition in a phrasal verb that forms a verb-particle construction.
case
Case marker
A case marker (case) is either a possessive marker, …
mark
Marker A marker (mark) is either a subordinating conjunction (e.g., although, because, while) that introduces an adverbial clause modifier, or a subordinating conjunction, if, that, or whether, that introduces a clausal complement.
dep
Unclassified dependent
An unclassified dependent (dep) is a dependent that does not satisfy conditions for any other dependency.
meta
Meta modifier
A meta modifier (meta) is code (1), embedded (2), or meta (3) information that is randomly inserted in a phrase or clause.
parataxis
Parenthetical modifier
A parenthetical modifier (parataxis) is an embedded chunk, often but not necessarily surrounded by parenthetical notations (e.g,. brackets, quotes, commas, etc.), which gives side information to its head.
punct
Punctuation Any punctuation (punct) is assigned the dependency label PUNCT.
root
Root A root (root) is the root of a tree that does not depend on any node in the tree but the artificial root node.
