NLP Notes

The meanings of grammatical categories are explained as follows:

Det: Determiners
PreDet: Pre-determiners (search for PreDet in data/wndict.lsp for instances)
PostDet: Post-determiners (search for PostDet in data/wndict.lsp for instances)
NUM: numbers
C: Clauses
I: Inflectional Phrases
V: Verb and Verb Phrases
N: Noun and Noun Phrases
NN: noun-noun modifiers
P: Preposition and Preposition Phrases
PpSpec: Specifiers of Preposition Phrases (search for PpSpec
in data/wndict.lsp for instances)
A: Adjective/Adverbs
Have: have
Aux: Auxilary verbs, e.g. should, will, does, ...
Be: Different forms of be: is, am, were, be, ...
COMP: Complementizer
VBE: be used as a linking verb. E.g., I am hungry
V_N verbs with one argument (the subject), i.e., intransitive verbs
V_N_N verbs with two arguments, i.e., transitive verbs
V_N_I verbs taking small clause as complement

GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS

The following is a list of all the grammatical relationships in
Minipar. Search for (dep-type relation) in data/minipar.lsp for the
meaning of relation.

appo "ACME president, --appo-> P.W. Buckman"
aux "should <-aux-- resign"
be "is <-be-- sleeping"
c "that <-c-- John loves Mary"
comp1 first complement
det "the <-det `-- hat"
gen "Jane's <-gen-- uncle"
have "have <-have-- disappeared"
i the relationship between a C clause and its I clause
inv-aux inverted auxiliary: "Will <-inv-aux-- you stop it?
inv-be inverted be: "Is <-inv-be-- she sleeping"
inv-have inverted have: "Have <-inv-have-- you slept"
mod the relationship between a word and its adjunct modifier
pnmod post nominal modifier
p-spec specifier of prepositional phrases
pcomp-c clausal complement of prepositions
pcomp-n nominal complement of prepositions
post post determiner
pre pre determiner
pred predicate of a clause
rel relative clause
vrel passive verb modifier of nouns
wha, whn, whp: wh-elements at C-spec positions
obj object of verbs
obj2 second object of ditransitive verbs
subj subject of verbs
s surface subject

MINIPAR Homepage:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/minipar.htm

(Information is from the README file of the program.)