ADP: adposition

Definition

The ADP tag is used exclusively for prepositions in Spanish, as the language does not have postpositions. Prepositions typically precede a noun or pronoun and provide additional information about its role in the sentence. They can indicate location, direction, time, manner, or other relationships.

List of prepositions in Spanish:

• a “to, at”
• ante “before, in the presence of”
• bajo “under, below”
• cabe “beside”
• con “with”
• contra “against”
• de “of, from”
• desde “since, from”
• en “in, on, at”
• entre “between, among”
• hacia “toward”
• hasta “until, up to”
• para “for, in order to”
• por “by, for, through”
• según “according to”
• sin “without”
• sobre “on, over, about”
• tras “after, behind”

Note that some prepositions can be followed by a pronoun, creating contractions. In Universal Dependencies, these contractions are represented as multi-word tokens, with each part assigned its original POS tag. Here are two examples of sentences featuring the contractions al (a + el) “to the” and del (de + el) “of/from the”, which are the two typical contractions with prepositions in Spanish.

Example 1

# text = Vamos al parque
# text_en = Let's go to the park
1     Vamos    ir       VERB
2-3   al       _        _
2     a        a        ADP
3     el       el       DET
4     parque   parque   NOUN

Example 2

# text = La llave está debajo del coche
# text_en = The key is under the car
1     La       el       DET
2     llave    llave    NOUN
3     está     estar    AUX
4     debajo   debajo   ADP
5-6   del      _        _
5     de       de       ADP
6     el       el       DET
7     coche    coche    NOUN

In both examples, the contractions al and del are represented as multi-word tokens (2-3 and 5-6, respectively), with each part assigned its original POS tag (ADP for a and de DET for “el”).

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