A tagset is a list of part-of-speech tags (POS tags for short), i.e. labels used to indicate the part of speech and sometimes also other grammatical categories (case, tense etc.) of each token in a text corpus.
Susanne corpus part-of-speech tagset is a special tagset used in Susanne corpus comprises 353 distinct word tags. Detailed information about the tagset find at http://www.grsampson.net/SueDoc.html
This is modified tagset of default TreeTagger tagset.
An Example of a tag in the CQL concordance search box: [tag="NN.*"] finds all common nouns, e.g. people, years (note: please make sure that you use straight double quotation marks)
Tagset
| Rootrank Formtags | |
| O | paragraph |
| Oh | heading |
| Ot | title (e.g. of book) |
| Q | quotation |
| I | interpolation |
| Iq | tag question |
| Iu | technical reference |
| Clausetags | |
| S | main clause |
| Ss | embedded quoting clause |
| Fa | adverbial clause |
| Fn | nominal clause |
| Fr | relative clause |
| Ff | fused relative |
| Fc | comparative clause |
| Tg | present participle clause |
| Tn | past participle clause |
| Ti | infinitival clause |
| Tf | for-to clause |
| Tb | bare nonfinite clause |
| Tq | infinitival relative clause |
| W | with clause |
| A | special as clause |
| Z | reduced (“whiz-deleted”) relative |
| L | miscellaneous verbless clause |
| Phrasetags | |
| V | verb group |
| N | noun phrase |
| J | adjective phrase |
| R | adverb phrase |
| P | prepositional phrase |
| D | determiner phrase |
| M | numeral phrase |
| G | genitive phrase |
| Subcategories | |
| Vo | operator section of verb group, when separated from remainder of V e.g. by subject-auxiliary inversion |
| Vr | remainder of V from which Vo has been separated |
| Vm | V beginning with am |
| Va | V beginning with are |
| Vs | V beginning with was |
| Vz | V beginning with other 3rd-singular verb |
| Vw | V beginning with were |
| Vj | V beginning with be |
| Vd | V beginning with past tense |
| Vi | infinitival V |
| Vg | V beginning with present participle |
| Vn | V beginning with past participle |
| Vc | V beginning with modal |
| Vk | V containing emphatic DO |
| Ve | negative V |
| Vf | perfective V |
| Vu | progressive V |
| Vp | passive V |
| Vb | V ending with BE |
| Vx | V lacking main verb |
| Vt | catenative V |
| Nq | wh- N |
| Nv | wh…ever N |
| Ne | I/me as whole or head |
| Ny | you as whole or head |
| Ni | it as whole or head |
| Nj | adjectival head |
| Nn | proper name |
| Nu | unit of measurement as head |
| Na | marked as subject |
| No | marked as nonsubject |
| Ns | marked as singular |
| Np | marked as plural |
| Jq | wh- J |
| Jv | wh…ever J |
| Jx | measured absolute J |
| Jr | measured comparative J |
| Jh | heavy (postmodified) J |
| Rq | wh- R |
| Rv | wh…ever R |
| Rx | measured absolute R |
| Rr | measured comparative R |
| Rs | adverb conducive to asyndeton |
| Rw | quasi-nominal adverb |
| Po | of phrase |
| Pb | by phrase |
| Pq | wh- P |
| Pv | wh…ever P |
| Dq | wh- D |
| Dv | wh…ever D |
| Ds | marked as singular |
| Dp | marked as plural |
| Ms | M headed by one |
| Gq | wh- G |
| Gv | wh…ever G |
| Functiontags | |
| Functiontags are appended to formtags, similarly to the previously mentioned subcategories. They are however seperated from them with a ‚:‘. | |
| Complement Functiontags | |
| s | logical subject |
| o | logical direct object |
| i | indirect object |
| u | prepositional object |
| e | predicate complement of subject |
| j | predicate complement of object |
| a | agent of passive |
| S | surface (and not logical) subject |
| O | surface (and not logical) direct object |
| G | guest having no grammatical role within its tagma |
| Adjunct Functiontags | |
| p | place |
| q | direction |
| t | time |
| h | manner or degree |
| m | modality |
| c | contingency |
| r | respect |
| w | comitative |
| k | benefactive |
| b | absolute |
| Other Functiontags | |
| n | participle of phrasal verb |
| x | relative clause having higher clause as antecedent |
| z | complement of catenative |
Source: http://www.grsampson.net/SueDoc.html
