Person: person
In English, Person is a feature of personal and possessive pronouns, and of some verbs to mark agreement with its subject.
1: first person
In singular, the first person refers just to the speaker / author. In plural, it must include the speaker and one or more additional persons.
This feature is only used for pronouns and two inflections of be:
- am, was (if I is its subject), I, we, me, us, my, mine, our, ours, myself, ourselves
2: second person
In singular, the second person refers to the addressee of the utterance / text. In plural, it may mean several addressees and optionally some third persons too.
This feature is only used for pronouns:
- you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves
3: second person
The third person refers to one or more persons that are neither speakers nor addressees.
It is used for the following pronouns:
- he, she, it, they, him, her, them, his, hers, their, theirs, himself, herself, itself, themselves
Additionally, it is used for verbs that require a third person singular subject which have the PTB tag VBZ.
Examples:
- he walks
- she is
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 3 different values: 1, 2, 3.
25893 tokens (10%) have a non-empty value of Person.
542 types (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Person.
448 lemmas (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Person.
The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (18446; 7% instances), en-pos/VERB (5616; 2% instances), en-pos/AUX (1831; 1% instances).
PRON
18446 en-pos/PRON tokens (82% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Person.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Person co-occurred: PronType=Prs (18446; 100%), Poss=EMPTY (14872; 81%), Gender=EMPTY (13706; 74%), Case=Nom (11682; 63%), Number=Sing (10927; 59%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Person:
1(7890; 43% of non-emptyPerson): i, we, my, me, our, us, myself, ourselves2(3587; 19% of non-emptyPerson): you, your, yourself, yourselves3(6969; 38% of non-emptyPerson): it, they, he, their, them, his, him, she, her, itsEMPTY(4181): that, this, what, there, which, who, anyone, something, anything, nothing
Person seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 100% lemmas (19) occur only with one value of Person.
VERB
5616 en-pos/VERB tokens (17% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Person.
The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Person co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (5616; 100%), Mood=Ind (5616; 100%), Number=Sing (5616; 100%), Tense=Pres (4668; 83%).
VERB tokens may have the following values of Person:
1(162; 3% of non-emptyPerson): am, was3(5454; 97% of non-emptyPerson): is, was, ‘s, has, s, says, seems, makes, needs, looksEMPTY(27854): have, are, be, get, know, had, go, do, want, said
| Paradigm be | 1 | 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Tense=Past | was | was |
| Tense=Pres | am | is, 's, s, ai |
Person seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (429) occur only with one value of Person.
AUX
1831 en-pos/AUX tokens (19% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Person.
The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Person co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (1831; 100%), Mood=Ind (1831; 100%), Number=Sing (1831; 100%), Tense=Pres (1337; 73%).
AUX tokens may have the following values of Person:
1(209; 11% of non-emptyPerson): am, was3(1622; 89% of non-emptyPerson): is, has, was, does, ‘s, s, gets, `sEMPTY(7748): will, can, would, have, do, be, are, could, should, did
| Paradigm be | 1 | 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Tense=Past | was | was |
| Tense=Pres | am | is, 's, s |
Relations with Agreement in Person
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Person:
PRON –[nmod:npmod]–> PRON (3; 100%),
PRON –[case]–> VERB (1; 100%).
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