UCREL CLAWS2 Tagset

!
punctuation tag - exclamation mark
"
punctuation tag - quotation marks
$
germanic genitive marker - (' or 's)
&FO
formula
&FW
foreign word
(
punctuation tag - left bracket
)
punctuation tag - right bracket
,
punctuation tag - comma
-
punctuation tag - dash
-----
new sentence marker
.
punctuation tag - full-stop
...
punctuation tag - ellipsis
:
punctuation tag - colon
;
punctuation tag - semi-colon
?
punctuation tag - question-mark
APP$
possessive pronoun, pre-nominal (my, your, our etc.)
AT
article (the, no)
AT1
singular article (a, an, every)
BCS
before-conjunction (in order (that), even (if etc.))
BTO
before-infinitive marker (in order, so as (to))
CC
coordinating conjunction (and, or)
CCB
coordinating conjunction (but)
CF
semi-coordinating conjunction (so, then, yet)
CS
subordinating conjunction (if, because, unless)
CSA
'as' as a conjunction
CSN
'than' as a conjunction
CST
'that' as a conjunction
CSW
'whether' as a conjunction
DA
after-determiner (capable of pronominal function) (such, former, same)
DA1
singular after-determiner (little, much)
DA2
plural after-determiner (few, several, many)
DA2R
comparative plural after-determiner (fewer)
DAR
comparative after-determiner (more, less)
DAT
superlative after-determiner (most, least)
DB
before-determiner (capable of pronominal function) (all, half)
DB2
plural before-determiner (capable of pronominal function) (eg. both)
DD
determiner (capable of pronominal function) (any, some)
DD1
singular determiner (this, that, another)
DD2
plural determiner (these, those)
DDQ
wh-determiner (which, what)
DDQ$
wh-determiner, genitive (whose)
DDQV
wh-ever determiner (whichever, whatever)
EX
existential 'there'
ICS
preposition-conjunction (after, before, since, until)
IF
'for' as a preposition
II
preposition
IO
'of' as a preposition
IW
'with'; 'without' as preposition
JA
predicative adjective (tantamount, afraid, asleep)
JB
attributive adjective (main, chief, utter)
JBR
attributive comparative adjective (upper, outer)
JBT
attributive superlative adjective (utmost, uttermost)
JJ
general adjective
JJ
general comparative adjective (older, better, bigger)
JJT
general superlative adjective (oldest, best, biggest)
JK
adjective catenative ('able' in 'be able to'; 'willing' in 'be willing to')
LE
leading co-ordinator ('both' in 'both...and...'; 'either' in 'either... or...')
MC
cardinal number neutral for number (two, three...)
MC$
genitive cardinal number, neutral for number (10's)
MC-MC
hyphenated number 40-50, 1770-1827)
MC1
singular cardinal number (one)
MC2
plural cardinal number (tens, twenties)
MD
ordinal number (first, 2nd, next, last)
MF
fraction, neutral for number (quarters, two-thirds)
NC2
plural cited word ('ifs' in 'two ifs and a but')
ND1
singular noun of direction (north, southeast)
NN
common noun, neutral for number (sheep, cod)
NN1
singular common noun (book, girl)
NN1$
genitive singular common noun (domini)
NN2
plural common noun (books, girls)
NNJ
organization noun, neutral for number (department, council, committee)
NNJ1
singular organization noun (Assembly, commonwealth)
NNJ2
plural organization noun (governments, committees)
NNL
locative noun, neutral for number (Is.)
NNL1
singular locative noun (street, Bay)
NNL2
plural locative noun (islands, roads)
NNO
numeral noun, neutral for number (dozen, thousand)
NNO1
singular numeral noun (no known examples)
NNO2
plural numeral noun (hundreds, thousands)
NNS
noun of style, neutral for number (no known examples)
NNS1
singular noun of style (president, rabbi)
NNS2
plural noun of style (presidents, viscounts)
NNSA1
following noun of style or title, abbreviatory (M.A.)
NNSA2
following plural noun of style or title, abbreviatory
NNSB
preceding noun of style or title, abbr. (Rt. Hon.)
NNSB1
preceding sing. noun of style or title, abbr. (Prof.)
NNSB2
preceding plur. noun of style or title, abbr. (Messrs.)
NNT
temporal noun, neutral for number (no known examples)
NNT1
singular temporal noun (day, week, year)
NNT2
plural temporal noun (days, weeks, years)
NNU
unit of measurement, neutral for number (in., cc.)
NNU1
singular unit of measurement (inch, centimetre)
NNU2
plural unit of measurement (inches, centimetres)
NP
proper noun, neutral for number (Indies, Andes)
NP1
singular proper noun (London, Jane, Frederick)
NP2
plural proper noun (Browns, Reagans, Koreas)
NPD1
singular weekday noun (Sunday)
NPD2
plural weekday noun (Sundays)
NPM1
singular month noun (October)
NPM2
plural month noun (Octobers)
PN
indefinite pronoun, neutral for number ("none")
PN1
singular indefinite pronoun (one, everything, nobody)
PNQO
whom
PNQS
who
PNQV$
whosever
PNQVO
whomever, whomsoever
PNQVS
whoever, whosoever
PNX1
reflexive indefinite pronoun (oneself)
PP$
nominal possessive personal pronoun (mine, yours)
PPH1
it
PPHO1
him, her
PPHO2
them
PPHS1
he, she
PPHS2
they
PPIO1
me
PPIO2
us
PPIS1
I
PPIS2
we
PPX1
singular reflexive personal pronoun (yourself, itself)
PPX2
plural reflexive personal pronoun (yourselves, ourselves)
PPY
you
RA
adverb, after nominal head (else, galore)
REX
adverb introducing appositional constructions (namely, viz, eg.)
RG
degree adverb (very, so, too)
RGA
post-nominal/adverbial/adjectival degree adverb (indeed, enough)
RGQ
wh- degree adverb (how)
RGQV
wh-ever degree adverb (however)
RGR
comparative degree adverb (more, less)
RGT
superlative degree adverb (most, least)
RL
locative adverb (alongside, forward)
RP
prep. adverb; particle (in, up, about)
RPK
prep. adv., catenative ('about' in 'be about to')
RR
general adverb
RRQ
wh- general adverb (where, when, why, how)
RRQV
wh-ever general adverb (wherever, whenever)
RRR
comparative general adverb (better, longer)
RRT
superlative general adverb (best, longest)
RT
nominal adverb of time (now, tommorow)
TO
infinitive marker (to)
UH
interjection (oh, yes, um)
VB0
be
VBDR
were
VBDZ
was
VBG
being
VBM
am
VBN
been
VBR
are
VBZ
is
VD0
do
VDD
did
VDG
doing
VDN
done
VDZ
does
VH0
have
VHD
had (past tense)
VHG
having
VHN
had (past participle)
VHZ
has
VM
modal auxiliary (can, will, would etc.)
VMK
modal catenative (ought, used)
VV0
base form of lexical verb (give, work etc.)
VVD
past tense form of lexical verb (gave, worked etc.)
VVG
-ing form of lexical verb (giving, working etc.)
VVN
past participle form of lexical verb (given, worked etc.)
VVZ
-s form of lexical verb (gives, works etc.)
VVGK
-ing form in a catenative verb ('going' in 'be going to')
VVNK
past part. in a catenative verb ('bound' in 'be bound to')
XX
not, n't
ZZ1
singular letter of the alphabet:'A', 'a', 'B', etc.
ZZ2
plural letter of the alphabet: 'As', b's, etc.

NOTE: "DITTO TAGS"

Any of the tags listed above may in theory be modified by the addition of a pair of numbers to it: eg. DD21, DD22 This signifies that the tag occurs as part of a sequence of similar tags, representing a sequence of words which for grammatical purposes are treated as a single unit. For example the expression in terms of is treated as a single preposition, receiving the tags:

		 in_II31 terms_II32 of_II33 
The first of the two digits indicates the number of words/tags in the sequence, and the second digit the position of each word within that sequence.

Such ditto tags are not included in the lexicon, but are assigned automatically by a program called IDIOMTAG which looks for a range of multi-word sequences included in the idiomlist. The following sample entries from the idiomlist show that syntactic ambiguity is taken into account, and also that, depending on the context, ditto tags may or may not be required for a particular word sequence:

		at_RR21 length_RR22
		a_DD21/RR21 lot_DD22/RR22
		in_CS21/II that_CS22/DD1 


UCREL CLAWS2 Tagset

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