UCREL Skeleton Parsing Tagset
- Fa
- Adverbial Clause
- Fc
- Comparative Clause
- Fn
- Noun Clause
- Fr
- Relative Clause
- G
- Genitive
- J
- Adjective Phrase (predicative)
- N
- Noun Phrase
- Nr
- Adverbial Noun Phrase (temporal)
- Nv
- Adverbial Noun Phrase (non-temporal) (not in AP or SEC corpora)
- P
- Prepositional Phrase
- S
- Sentence (used eg in quoted speech, also with + and & as co-ordinates)
- Tg
- -ing Clause
- Ti
- Infinitive Clause
- Tn
- Past Participle Clause
- V
- Verb Phrase
- (null)
- Unlabelled Constituent (see below)
Miscellaneous skeleton parsing notes
Unlabelled Constituents
The marking of unspecified constituents is widespread. In UCREL corpora
they are simply marked with unlabelled brackets.
Examples of the use of unlabelled brackets:
- (Compound) Adverbial Phrases:
- The money ran out [ very_RG quickly_RR ]
- 'Unequal' coordination:
- He did it [[ reluctantly ] and [ with a feeling of 'deja-vu']]
- Compound attributive adjective phrases:
- a [ rather_RR splendid_JJ ] cup of tea
- Verbless clauses:
- There he stood [ with [N his head N] [P under [N his arm N]P]]
Coordination
Any of the above "hyper-tags" may be used with '&' or '+' to indicate
coordinates. The first coordinate will have '&'. Subsequent ones will
have '+':
- [N[N& This performance N&] and [N+ his two previous ones N+]N]
- He claimed to have committed the crime [Fa[Fa& because he was
desparate Fa&] and [Fa+ because he saw an opportunity to solve
his problems at a stroke Fa+]Fa]
UCREL Skeleton Parsing Key / S.Fligelstone@lancaster.ac.uk
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