Irish (Gaeilge) part-of-speech tagset

Parole Common Morphosyntactical Tagset

The tables below give a full description of the part-of-speech (morpho-syntactical) tagset used in the New Corpus for Ireland.

The tagset is built on the work of the MULTEXT, PAROLE and EAGLES projects which developed tagsets applicable to a wide range of languages.

The following 15 tables describe the information associated with the various parts of speech.
(All underlined items and categories in the tables marked with * are additional items specific to Irish which were added during manual checking of the text.)

1. Noun	9. Conjunction
2. Verb	10. Numerals
3. Adjective	11. Interjection
4. Pronoun	12. Unique Memebrship Class
5. Determiner	13. Residuals
6. Article	14. Punctuation
7. Adverb	15. Abbreviation
8. Adposition	16. Copula
	17. Verbal Particle

noun

1. NOUN
1. POS	2. Type	3. Gender	4. Number	5. Case	6. Sem-Gender	*7. Contrast
N	c = common p = proper s = substant. v = verbal	f = fem m =mas	s = sing. p = pl.	c = com. g = gen. v = voc. d = dative	n/a	e = emphatic

Example :
[tag="Feabhra"]

verb

2. VERB
1. POS	2. Type	3. Mood	4. Tense	5. Person	6. Number	7. Gender	*8. Dependency	*9. Contrast
V	m =main	i = indic . s = subj. m = imper c = cond.	p = pres. s = past h = past hab f = future g = pres. hab	1 = first 2 = sec. 3 = third 0 = free	s = sing p = pl.	n/a	d = dependant r = relative n = negative	e = emphatic

Example :
[tag="fáiltíonn"]

adj

3. ADJECTIVE
1. POS	2. Type	3. Degree	4. Gender	5. Number	6. Case	*7. Contrast
A	q = qualificator v = verbal	p = positive c = comparative	f = fem. m =masc.	s = sing p = pl.	n = nom. g = gen. v = voc.	e = emphatic

Example :
[tag="glan"]
[tag="mó"]
[tag="briste"]

pron

4. PRONOUN
1.POS	2. Type	3. Person	4. Gender	5. Number	6. Case	7. Posessor
P	p = personal c = contrastive x = reflexive i = indefinite r = prepositional d = demonstrative	1 = first 2 = second 3 = third 0 = null	f = fem. m =masc.	s = sing. p= pl.	n/a	e = emphatic

Example :
[tag=”sé”]
[tag=”seisean”]
[tag=”féin”]
[tag=”ceachtar”]

det

5. DETERMINER
1. POS	2. Type	3. Person	4. Gender	5. Number	6. Case	7. Posessor
D	d = demonstrative p = possessive q = quantifier c = contextual w = interrogative	1 = first 2 = second 3 = third	f = fem. m =masc.	s = sing p = pl.	n/a	n/a

Example :
[tag="seo"]
[tag="a"]
[tag="cé"]

art

6. ARTICLE
1. POS	2. Type	3. Gender	4. Number	5. Case
T	d = definite	f = fem. m =masc.	s = sing p = pl.	n = nom. g = gen.

Example :
[tag="an"]

adv

7. ADVERB
1. POS	2. Type	3. Degree	4. Function	5. Wh-ness
R	g = general d = direction i = intensifier q = interrogative r = relative t = temporal l = locative	b = base c = comparative s = superlative	m = mod. s = spe.	n/a

Example :
[tag="síos"]
[tag="mar"]
[tag="conas"]
[tag="siar"]

adp

8. ADPOSITION
1. POS	2. Type	3. For‘ma‘tion	4. Gender	5. Number
S	p = preposition	c = compound a = with article		s = sing p = pl. n = null

Example :
[tag="le"]
[tag="sa"]

conj

9. CONJUNCTION
1. POS	2. Type	3. Ctype	4. Coord-pos
C	c = coordinate s = subordinative	w = with copula q = interrog. r = relative	s = past tense

Example :
[tag="agus"]
[tag="go"]

num

10. NUMERALS
1. POS	2. Type	3. Gender	4. Number	5. Case
M	c = cardinal o = ordinal p = personal r = roman	n/a	n/a	n/a

Example :
[tag="trí"]
[tag="chéad"]
[tag="triúr"]
[tag="iii"]

int

11. INTERJECTION

1. POS

I

Example :
[tag="Ora"]

umc

12. UNIQUE MEMBERSHIP CLASS
1. POS	2. Particle Type	3. B-Function
U	c = comparative s = superlative a = adverbial r = relative v = vocative m = numeral d = degree p = patronym o = other

Example :
[tag="a"]
[tag="a"]
[tag="Uí"]

res

13. RESIDUALS
1. POS	2 Type
X	f = foreign s = symbol t = toponym a = acronym b = abbreviation n = number d = date x = unknown

Example :
[tag="chevalier"]
[tag="Maigh"]

punc

14. PUNCTUATION
1. POS	2. Type
F	e = sentence final i = sen. Internal a = quote/par init. z= quote/par fin. b= hyphen/ underscore/ dash u = [[BR]]q = ? x = apostrophe

Example :
[tag=";"]
[tag="-"]
[tag="!"]

 

abbrev

15. ABBREVIATION

1. POS

Y

Example :
[tag="lch"]

copula

16. COPULA
1. POS	2. Tense/Mood	3. Clause Type	4. Mood	5. Neg/Aff
W	p = pres/fut s = past/cond	i = independant d = dependant r = relative (direct) s = relative (indirect)	i = indic. s = subjunct. q = interrog.	n = neg a = affirmative

part

17. VERBAL PARTICLE
1. POS	2. Type	3. Mood	4. Tense
Q	q = interrog. n = neg a = affirmative	q = interrog. s = subjunct. m = inperative	s = past