Morphological Feature Tags

latest version https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SLP/morphtag.htm
(Sept 2012)

The following tables contain the tags used in
Irish Finite-State Morphology.

0. General

1. Noun

2. Verb

3. Adjective

4. Pronoun

5. Determiner

6. Article

7. Adverb

8. Preposition

9. Conjunction

10. Numeral

11. Interjection

12. Unique Membership Class

13. Residuals

14. Punctuation

15. Abbreviation

16. Copula

17. Verbal Particle

18. Speech  

Table 0.           General Tags

Tag

Description

+CM

canúint na Mumhan, Munster dialect

+CC

canúint Chonnacht, Connaught dialect

+CU

canúint Uladh, Ulster dialect

+Len séimhiú (lenition)
+Ecl urú (eclipsis)
+hPref prefixed vowel
+Emph nouns, verbs, adjectives can all take an emphatic suffix
+Guess,
+GuessCmpd
any token which is not in the F-S lexicon will receive a guessed analysis

Table 1.           Noun Tags

Tag

Description

+Noun

noun

+Prop

proper noun

+Pers

proper noun - personal name

+Fam

proper noun - family name

+Place

proper noun - placename

+Verbal

verbal/action noun; mostly de-verbal but some derived from agentive nouns

+Subst

substantive; words functioning as a noun but lacking full paradigm

+Fem

feminine

+Masc

masculine

+Com

common case (nominative/accusative/most datives)

+Gen

genitive case

+Voc

vocative case

+Dat

dative case (where exists)

+Sg

singular in number

+Pl

plural in number

+DefArt

definite noun e.g. preceded by an article

+Idf

indefinite noun e.g. not preceded by an article

+Strong

strong plural (same plural for common, gen. and voc. cases)

+Weak

weak plural (different com, gen, voc plurals)

+Emph

emphasis: ár dteachsaour house’, ár bpáircseour field’

+Len

lenition e.g. after simple prep. e.g. ar thír ‘on a country’

+Ecl

eclipsis e.g. after compound prep e.g.ar an gcat ‘on the cat’

+NStem

verbal noun which is de-nominal rather than de-verbal

Table 2.           Verb Tags

Tag

Description

+Verb

verb

+1P +2P +3P

first, second and third person

+Auto

autonomous form

+Sg +Pl

singular and plural

+PresInd

present indicative

+PastInd

past indicative

+PastIndDep

past indicative dependant form (irregular verbs)

+PastImp

past imperfect indicative

+FutInd

future indicative

+Cond

conditional

+PresSubj

present subjunctive

+PastSubj

past subjunctive

+Imper

imperative

+Neg

negative form

+Q

interrogative form

+NegQ

negative interrogative form

+Rel

relative

Table 3.           Adjective Tags

Tag

Description

+Adj

adjective

+Base

base form; a.k.a. positive form

+Comp

comparative and superlative form

+Masc

masculine gender

+Fem

feminine gender

+Com

common case

+Gen

genitive case

+Voc

vocative case

+Sg

singular

+Pl

plural

+Strong

an adj. qualifying a strong plural noun will also have the same plural form in all cases

+Weak

an adj. qualifying  a weak plural noun, in the gen.case, is not inflected

+Slender

adj qualifying a plural noun ending in a slender consonant

+NotSlen

adj. qualifying a plural noun ending in a broad consonant or a vowel

+Len

adjectives with nouns which are lenited, e.g. a masc noun after prepositions (e.g. ag an ‘at the’, ar an ‘on the’, as an ‘out of the’ etc.), is either lenited or eclipsed according to preference/dialect.

+Verbal

de-verbal adjective

+Its

intensifier


Table 4.           Pronoun Tag

Tag

Description

+Pron

pronoun

+Prep

with preposition; e.g. liom 'with me', leat 'with you'

+Emph

emphatic (contrastive) form of personal pronoun

+Ref

reflexive

+Idf

indefinite

+1P +2P +3P

first, second or third person

+Fem

feminine gender

+Masc

masculine gender

+Sg +Pl

singular or plural in number

+VerbSubj

pronoun as verb subject, e.g. Chuaigh amach ‘She went out’

Table 5.           Determiner Tags

Tag

Description

+Det

determiner

+Dem

demonstrative: seo, sin, eile

+Poss

possessive: mo do, a etc.

+Qty

quantifier

+Idf

indefinite quantifier:aon,

+Def

definite quantifier: gach, uile

+1P +2P +3P

first, second or third person

+Fem

feminine gender

+Masc

masculine gender

+Sg +Pl

singular or plural in number

 

Table 6.           Article Tags

Tag

Description

+Art

article

+Def

definite

+Fem

feminine gender

+Gen

genitive case

+Sg

singular

+Pl

plural

 

Table 7.           Adverb Tags

Tag

Description

+Adv

adverb

+Gn

general, e.g. (go) tapaidh, quickly, fadó, fós

+Its

intensifier, e.g. sách tapaidh, ‘fairly quickly’

+Dir

direction: suas, thart

+Q

interrogative, e.g. bhfuil sé ‘where is it/he’

+Loc

location: anseo, ansin

+Temp temporal: inniu, anocht

 

Table 8.           Preposition Tags

Tag

Description

+Prep

preposition

+Simp

simple

+Cmpd

compound, e.g. tar éis

+Emph

emphatic form of prep pronoun

+Art with article: den, sna

+Rel

with relative: ina (mbíonn sé)

+Poss

with possessive, e.g. ina ‘in his’ inár ‘in our’

+Obj

with object pronoun, e.g. á (de + a) mbualadh

+Deg

with degree particle, e.g. dá (de +a) airde an sliabh...

+1P +2P +3P

first, second or third person

+Fem

feminine gender

+Masc

masculine gender

+Sg +Pl

singular or plural in number

Table 9.           Conjunction Tags

Tag

Description

+Conj

conjunction

+Coord

co-ordinate, e.g. agus 'and'

+Subord

subordinate, e.g. ach 'but'

+Past e.g. gur tharla sé
+Cop copula

Table 10.       Numeral Tags

Tag

Description

+Num

numeral

+Card

cardinal, e.g. aon dó trí... ‘one, two, three’

+Ord

ordinal, e.g. céad dara tríú... ‘first, second, third’

+Pers

personal, e.g. duine, beirt, triúr ’one person, two people, three people ’

+Rom

roman numerals: iii, IV

+Op

operator; +, -, *, / etc

+Def

form following definite article, e.g. an t-aon

Table 11.       Interjection Tags

Tag

Description

+Itj

interjection, e.g. á ‘aah’, faraor ‘unfortunately’

Table 12.       Particle Tags (Unique Membership Class)

Tag

Description

+Part

particle

+Ad

adverbial, e.g. go holc ‘ badly’

+Nm

numeral, e.g. a haon ‘one’

+Comp

comparative degree, e.g. níos fearr ‘better’

+Pat

patronym, e.g. Ó Beirn, Bheirn, Bheirn

+Voc

vocative particle, e.g. a Mháire ‘Mary!’

+Deg

degree particle, e.g. a géire a labhair sé 'how sharply he spoke'

+Cp

copular particle

Table 13.       Residuals Tags

Tag

Description

+Foreign

foreign words

+Dig

digits, e.g. 123,000 10.12

+Cur

currency symbols

+PC

per cent sign e.g. %

+Item

list item e.g. a) iv) (3)

+Time

am pm

+Email

e-mail addresses

+Web

website addresses

Table 14.       Punctuation Tags

Tag

Description

+Fin

sentence final punctuation, e.g. !?.

+Q

question mark i.e. ?

+Int

sentence internal punctuation, e.g. ,;:()

+Quo

quotation marks, e.g. ' "

+Bar

hyphen, underscore e.g. - _

Table 15.       Abbreviation Tags

Tag

Description

+Abr

abbreviation, e.g. lch. (leathanach) ‘page’

Table 16.           Copula Tags

Tag

Description

+Cop

verb

+Sg +Pl

singular and plural

+Pres

present / future

+PresSubj

present subjunctive

+Past

past / conditional

+Dep

dependant clause

+Neg

negative form

+Cop

copula

+Q

interrogative form

+NegQ

negative interrogative form

+Rel

relative (direct)

+RelInd

relative indirect

+VF

form before vowel or f word e.g. ab (fhusa)

+Pron

with pronoun, e.g. sea (is + ea), sé (is + é), sí (is + í)

Table 17.       Verbal Particle Tags

Tag

Description

+Part

particle

+Vb

verbal particle

+Neg

negative, e.g. raibh ‘was not’

+Q

interrogative verbal particle, e.g. an raibh ‘was?’

+Subj

subjunctive, e.g. go raibh maith agat ‘thank you’

+Imp

imperative, e.g. déan, ‘don’t do it’

+Past

past tense verbal particle, e.g. an raibh sé ‘was he?'ar chuala sé ‘did he hear’

+Fut

future tense, e.g. an mbeidh tú ann? ‘will you be there?’

+Pres

present tense, e.g. an bhfuil tú ann? ‘are you there’

+Cond

conditional, e.g. bhíonn tú ann ‘if you would be there’

+Rel

relative particle, a, ar

+Direct

direct relative, e.g. an fear a bhíonn tinn ‘the man who is (habitually) sick’

+Indirect

indirect relative, e.g. an fear a mbíonn a mhac tinn ‘the man whose son is (habitually) sick’

+Pro

relative particle with pronoun, e.g. gach a tharla ‘all that which happened’

Table 18.       Speech Tags

Tag

Description

+Cmc

communicator, e.g.mar a déarfá 'as you might say', an dtuigeann tú 'do you understand', just, you know, anyway, cos, because, fair play

+Event

non-speech event: laugh, cough, sneeze etc.

+Filler

filled pause, e.g. em, ah, mm, hm, etc.

+Fragment

phonetic fragments, e.g. bh- m- amá- etc.

+Xxx

indecipherable speech; word(s) not recogized or are inaudible

 

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