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DET: determiner

Definition

The term “determiner” is not employed in traditional grammars for Ancient Greek. In accordance with the UD guidelines, this category can subsume in Ancient Greek the following categories (for a list see Smyth 1920: 90-89):

Examples

• article: ὁ
• demonstrative pronouns used adjectively: ἐκεῖνος, οὗτος, ὅδε, αὐτός, τοσόσδε, etc.
• possessive pronouns used adjectively: ἐμός, σός, etc.
• interrogative pronouns used adjectively: πότερος, etc.
• relative pronouns used adjectively: ὅς
• indefinite pronouns used adjectively: ἄλλος, πᾶς, etc.

References

Smyth, Herbert Weir. 1920. A Greek Grammar for Colleges. New York: American Book Company (Perseus Digital Library; Internet Archive).

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Ancient_Greek)

There are 9 DET lemmas (0%), 56 DET types (0%) and 17052 DET tokens (7%). Out of 13 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 13 in number of lemmas, 9 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: ὁ, ὀ, οὗ, μήν, τά, τίς, τὁ, τῇ, ὅς

The 10 most frequent DET types: τῶν, τὴν, τὸ, τὸν, τῆς, ὁ, τοὺς, τοῦ, τὰ, τοῖς

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: ὁ (DET 17027, PRON 1944), οὗ (ADV 15, PRON 3, DET 2), μήν (ADV 103, NOUN 2, DET 1), τίς (PRON 299, ADJ 40, DET 1), τῇ (ADV 12, DET 1), ὅς (PRON 1701, ADJ 22, DET 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: τῶν (DET 2187, PRON 108), τὴν (DET 1858, PRON 135), τὸ (DET 1455, PRON 79, ADJ 1), τὸν (DET 1316, PRON 267, ADJ 1), τῆς (DET 1266, PRON 33, ADJ 1), ὁ (DET 1213, PRON 169), τοὺς (DET 1069, PRON 66), τοῦ (DET 1025, PRON 94), τὰ (DET 891, PRON 104), τοῖς (DET 836, PRON 41)

• τῶν
  • DET 2187: τοιάδε μέντοι τῶν φρενοπλήκτων βουλεύματ̓ ἔπη τ̓ ἔστιν ἀκοῦσαι .
  • PRON 108: μη δὲ πλαθείην γαμέτᾳ τινὶ τῶν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ .
• τὴν
  • DET 1858: ἐγὼ δὲ τὴν παροῦσαν ἀντλήσω τύχην , ἔστ̓ ἂν Διὸς φρόνημα λωφήσῃ χόλου .
  • PRON 135: ὧν τὴν μὲν ἔσω σφάζ̓ ἐπὶ γαίας , τὰ δὲ πλευροκοπῶν δίχ̓ ἀνερρήγνυ .
• τὸ
  • DET 1455: οἶδ̓ ὅτι τραχὺς καὶ παῤ ἑαυτῷ τὸ δίκαιον ἔχων Ζεύς .
  • PRON 79: οὐ γάρ τι μᾶλλον μὴ φύγῃς τὸ μόρσιμον .
  • ADJ 1: τὸ δὲ ἁπάντων θῶμα μέγιστόν μοι ἐστὶ τῶν ταύτῃ μετά γε αὐτὴν τὴν πόλιν , ἔρχομαι φράσων ·
• τὸν
  • DET 1316: στέλλου , κομίζου , σῷζε τὸν παρόντα νοῦν .
  • PRON 267: καὶ τὸν ἐνόσφισεν .
  • ADJ 1: τὸν μὲν ἔφερε θανατώσων παῖδα , τοῦτον μὲν παραδιδοῖ τῇ ἑωυτοῦ γυναικί , τὸν δὲ ἑωυτοῦ ἐόντα νεκρὸν λαβὼν ἔθηκε ἐς τὸ ἄγγος ἐν τῷ ἔφερε τὸν ἕτερον ·
• τῆς
  • DET 1266: πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ , γυνὴ σωτῆρος ·
  • PRON 33: ἐκ μὲν οὖν Θέμιδος τῆς Οὐρανοῦ γεννᾷ θυγατέρας ὥρας .
  • ADJ 1: σύ νυν , ἢν βούλῃ ἐμοὶ πείθεσθαι , τῆς περ Ἀστυάγης ἄρχει χώρης , ταύτης ἁπάσης ἄρξεις .
• ὁ
  • DET 1213: νῦν δ̓ αἰθέριον κίνυγμ̓ ὁ τάλας ἐχθροῖς ἐπίχαρτα πέπονθα .
  • PRON 169: ὁ δ̓ οὖν ποιείτω ·
• τοὺς
  • DET 1069: ἁρμοῖ πέπαυμαι τοὺς ἐμοὺς θρηνῶν πόνους .
  • PRON 66: πολλῷ γ̓ ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυς ἢ σαυτόν ·
• τοῦ
  • DET 1025: ἀπροσδόκητος δ̓ αὐτὸν ἀφνίδιος μόρος τοῦ ζῆν ἀπεστέρησεν .
  • PRON 94: πρὸς τοῦ τύραννα σκῆπτρα συληθήσεται ;
• τὰ
  • DET 891: τὰ πρὶν δὲ πελώρια νῦν ἀιστοῖ .
  • PRON 104: τὰ μὲν σ̓ ἐπαινῶ κοὐδαμῇ λήξω ποτέ ·
• τοῖς
  • DET 836: ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα , τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι .
  • PRON 41: τοῖς δ̓ ὁμόφωνον αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ , τὸ δ̓ εὖ νικάτω .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 6.222222 (the average of all parts of speech is 3.041201).

The 1st highest number of forms (55) was observed with the lemma “ὁ”: [τὴν, [ὁ], αἱ, αἳ, αἵ, οἱ, οἳ, οἵ, τ-, τά, τάς, τήν, ταὶ, ταῖς, τούς, τοὶ, τοὺς, τοῖν, τοῖο, τοῖς, τοῖσίν, τοῖσι, τοῖσιν, τοῦ, τό, τόν, τὰ, τὰν, τὰς, τὴν, τὸ, τὸν, τὼ, τᾶς, τᾷ, τῆς, τῇ, τῇσι, τῳ, τῶ, τῶν, τῷ, χαἰ, χοἰ, χἠ, χὠ, ἁ, ἃ, ἅπερ, ἡ, ἣ, ἥ, ὁ, ὃ, ὅ.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “ὀ”: οἱ, τοῦ.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “μήν”: μὴν.

DET occurs with 3 features: Case (16933; 99% instances), Number (16931; 99% instances), Gender (16925; 99% instances)

DET occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Dual, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

DET occurs with 37 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (1902 tokens). Examples: τὴν, τήν, τὰν, [τὴν, τῇ

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 13 different relations: det (16192; 95% instances), nsubj (372; 2% instances), advmod (200; 1% instances), dobj (199; 1% instances), iobj (34; 0% instances), conj (26; 0% instances), nsubjpass (13; 0% instances), cc (7; 0% instances), mark (3; 0% instances), xcomp (3; 0% instances), amod (1; 0% instances), mwe (1; 0% instances), root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: NOUN (12529; 73% instances), VERB (2219; 13% instances), ADJ (1993; 12% instances), PRON (198; 1% instances), ADV (82; 0% instances), DET (12; 0% instances), CONJ (6; 0% instances), NUM (6; 0% instances), ADP (5; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances)

16511 (97%) DET nodes are leaves.

336 (2%) DET nodes have one child.

153 (1%) DET nodes have two children.

52 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 8.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 15 different relations: nmod (368; 44% instances), amod (143; 17% instances), case (139; 17% instances), advmod (58; 7% instances), cc (26; 3% instances), conj (26; 3% instances), punct (18; 2% instances), dobj (15; 2% instances), acl (10; 1% instances), nsubj (10; 1% instances), xcomp (10; 1% instances), cop (3; 0% instances), det (2; 0% instances), neg (2; 0% instances), iobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (330; 40% instances), ADP (140; 17% instances), ADJ (93; 11% instances), ADV (78; 9% instances), PRON (70; 8% instances), VERB (61; 7% instances), CONJ (26; 3% instances), PUNCT (18; 2% instances), DET (12; 1% instances), NUM (3; 0% instances)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Ancient_Greek-PROIEL)

There are 3 DET lemmas (0%), 44 DET types (0%) and 27325 DET tokens (13%). Out of 13 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 13 in number of lemmas, 10 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: ὁ, αὐτός, οὗτος

The 10 most frequent DET types: ὁ, τοῦ, τὴν, τὸ, τὸν, τῶν, τῆς, οἱ, τῷ, τὰ

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: ὁ (DET 27319, PRON 1336, ADJ 27), αὐτός (PRON 5660, ADJ 590, DET 3), οὗτος (ADJ 3195, DET 3)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ὁ (DET 3263, PRON 251, ADJ 3), τοῦ (DET 3029, PRON 35), τὴν (DET 2401, PRON 50, ADJ 1), τὸ (DET 2381, PRON 68, ADJ 6), τὸν (DET 2274, PRON 68, ADJ 2), τῶν (DET 2015, PRON 103, ADJ 2), τῆς (DET 1836, PRON 22), οἱ (DET 1628, PRON 363, ADJ 1), τῷ (DET 1518, PRON 77, ADJ 1), τὰ (DET 1343, PRON 110, ADJ 4)

• ὁ
  • DET 3263: τότε λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς
  • PRON 251: ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
  • ADJ 3: ὁ δέ μιν συμψήσας ὑποβρύχιον οἰχώκεε φέρων
• τοῦ
  • DET 3029: μέλλει γὰρ Ἡρώδης ζητεῖν τὸ παιδίον τοῦ ἀπολέσαι αὐτό
  • PRON 35: ἦν οἱ παῖς τοῦ καὶ πρότερον ἐπεμνήσθην τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἐπιεικής ἄφωνος δέ
• τὴν
  • DET 2401: ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν κυρίου
  • PRON 50: ἀγαθὴ δὲ γῆ καὶ τὴν Εὐεσπερῖται νέμονται
  • ADJ 1: συνείδησιν δὲ λέγω οὐχὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ ἑτέρου
• τὸ
  • DET 2381: μέλλει γὰρ Ἡρώδης ζητεῖν τὸ παιδίον τοῦ ἀπολέσαι αὐτό
  • PRON 68: τῶν δὲ ὡς ἕκαστος οἱ μιχθῇ διδοῖ δῶρον τὸ ἂν ἔχῃ φερόμενος ἐξ οἴκου
  • ADJ 6: τὸ δὲ καὶ μᾶλλόν τι ἐπετηδεύθη
• τὸν
  • DET 2274: Ἀμιναδὰβ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ναασσών
  • PRON 68: τὸν ἂν ἐγὼ πᾶσι τυράννοισι προετίμησα μεγάλων χρημάτων ἐς λόγους ἐλθεῖν
  • ADJ 2: ἀπικόμενον δὲ δωρέεται χρυσῷ τὸν ἂν δύνηται τῷ ἑωυτοῦ σώματι ἐξενείκασθαι ἐσάπαξ
• τῶν
  • DET 2015: καὶ ἰδοὺ φωνὴ ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν λέγουσα
  • PRON 103: τῶν δὲ ὡς ἕκαστος οἱ μιχθῇ διδοῖ δῶρον τὸ ἂν ἔχῃ φερόμενος ἐξ οἴκου
  • ADJ 2: ὃ μὲν δὴ τῇ κλεηδόνι οὐδὲν χρεώμενος ἐπεχείρησέ τε καὶ τότε πάλιν ἐξέπιπτε μετὰ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων
• τῆς
  • DET 1836: καὶ ἰάθη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης
  • PRON 22: ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς διδοῖ πιεῖν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ἑτέρου πίνει
• οἱ
  • DET 1628: μακάριοι οἱ πραεῖς ὅτι αὐτοὶ κληρονομήσουσιν τήν γῆν
  • PRON 363: οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὸ πλοῖον καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ
  • ADJ 1: οἱ δὲ οὐ συνῆκαν
• τῷ
  • DET 1518: καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ ἀποδώσει σοι
  • PRON 77: τὰ δὲ νῦν παρεόντα Πακτύης γὰρ ἐστὶ ὁ ἀδικέων τῷ σὺ ἐπέτρεψας Σάρδις
  • ADJ 1: ἐπειδὴ αἰεὶ τῷ πολέμῳ ἑσσοῦντο ὑπὸ Τεγεητέων πέμψαντες θεοπρόπους ἐς Δελφοὺς ἐπειρώτων τίνα ἂν θεῶν ἱλασάμενοι κατύπερθε τῷ πολέμῳ Τεγεητέων γενοίατο
• τὰ
  • DET 1343: Τῶν δὲ δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τὰ ὀνόματά ἐστιν ταῦτα
  • PRON 110: τὰ γὰρ τὸ πάλαι μεγάλα ἦν τὰ πολλὰ σμικρὰ αὐτῶν γέγονε
  • ADJ 4: τίς γὰρ οἶδεν ἀνθρώπων τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰ μὴ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 14.666667 (the average of all parts of speech is 3.412038).

The 1st highest number of forms (39) was observed with the lemma “ὁ”: .ὁ, αἱ, αἲ, αἵ, οἱ, οἵ, τά, τάς, τήν, ταῖς, τον, τούς, τοὶς, τοὺ, τοὺς, τοῖς, τοῖσί, τοῖσι, τοῦ, τό, τόν, τὰ, τὰς, τὴν, τὸ, τὸν, τῆ, τῆς, τῇ, τῇσι, τῶν, τῷ, ἡ, ἢ, ἣ, ἥ, ὁ, ὃ, ὅ.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “οὗτος”: τούτου, τούτων, τοῦτο.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “αὐτός”: αὐτοὶ, αὐτοὺς.

DET occurs with 5 features: Case (27325; 100% instances), Number (27325; 100% instances), Definite (27319; 100% instances), PronType (27319; 100% instances), Gender (26724; 98% instances)

DET occurs with 13 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Definite=Def, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Masc,Neut, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Dem

DET occurs with 36 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem (3304 tokens). Examples: ὁ, ὅ, .ὁ, ὃ

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 1 different relations: det (27325; 100% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (18159; 66% instances), PROPN (3209; 12% instances), ADJ (2523; 9% instances), VERB (2317; 8% instances), ADP (454; 2% instances), PRON (318; 1% instances), ADV (213; 1% instances), NUM (125; 0% instances), INTJ (6; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

27310 (100%) DET nodes are leaves.

13 (0%) DET nodes have one child.

1 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

1 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 4.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 10 different relations: remnant (6; 32% instances), aux (4; 21% instances), nummod (2; 11% instances), acl (1; 5% instances), cc (1; 5% instances), conj (1; 5% instances), dobj (1; 5% instances), iobj (1; 5% instances), neg (1; 5% instances), nmod (1; 5% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 7 different parts of speech: ADJ (4; 21% instances), ADV (4; 21% instances), PRON (4; 21% instances), NOUN (3; 16% instances), NUM (2; 11% instances), CONJ (1; 5% instances), VERB (1; 5% instances)

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