UD for Bororo 
Tokenization and Word Segmentation
Bororo uses all 18 tags. Words are delimited by a whitespace.
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Instruction: Describe the general rules for delimiting words (for example, based on whitespace and punctuation) and exceptions to these rules. Specify whether words with spaces and/or multiword tokens occur. Include links to further language-specific documentation if available.
Morphology
Nouns
Gender
The `gender of nouns in Bororo follow the natural gender of the animate nouns, i.e., males take masculine gender and females take feminine gender. Inanimate nouns are genderless but morphologically they follow the masculine pattern.
Number
There are different ways of forming the plural
of nouns in Bororo: deleting the last syllables of nouns ending in -\textit{edu}, substituting the last vowel by \textit{e}, adding \textit{e} to the singular form, adding -\textit{doge} to the stem, adding -\textit{ge} to nouns ending in -\textit{reu}, -\textit{wu}, -\textit{epa}, -\textit{are}. There are also instances of irregular plural forms, ablaut with change of final vowel, and some forms that do not vary in the plural.
Tags
Person indexes
Person | Before consonant | Before vowel |
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1S | i- | it-, in-, ik- |
2S | a- | ak- |
3S | ∅, u- | |
3Anaf | tu-, pu- | t-, tud-, pud-, |
1PL.EX | ce- | ced-, cen-, ceg- |
1PL.IN | pa- | pag- |
2PL | ta- | tag- |
3PL | e- | et-, en-, ek- |
3Anaf | tu-, pu- | t-, tud-, pud-, |
The first plural of person indexes distinguish between the values Ex
(exclusive) and In
(inclusive) for the feature Clusivity
- Nouns are either possessed or unpossessed. Possessed nouns are either alienably o inalienably possessed and this distinction is morphologically marked, with inalienably possessed nouns being marked by agreement with the possessor.
Imi iia
imi i-ia
I 1SG-mouth
my mouth
Instruction: Specify any unused tags. Explain what words are tagged as PART. Describe how the AUX-VERB and DET-PRON distinctions are drawn, and specify whether there are (de)verbal forms tagged as ADJ, ADV or NOUN. Include links to language-specific tag definitions if any.
Features
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Instruction: Describe inherent and inflectional features for major word classes (at least NOUN and VERB). Describe other noteworthy features. Include links to language-specific feature definitions if any.
Syntax
Bororo is an ergative language. The only argument of an intransitive verb (absolutive) is marked by agreement on the verb.
Imaragodure
i-maragodu-re
1SG-work-ASS
For transitive verbs, the only agreement marker on the verb is that of the patient (absolutive) argument.
adugore emage ewido
adugo-re e-mage e-bito
jaguar-ASS they 3PL-kill
The jaguar killed them
Instruction: Give criteria for identifying core arguments (subjects and objects), and describe the range of copula constructions in nonverbal clauses. List all subtype relations used. Include links to language-specific relations definitions if any.
Treebanks
There are N Bororo UD treebanks:
Instruction: Treebank-specific pages are generated automatically from the README file in the treebank repository and
from the data in the latest release. Link to the respective *-index.html
page in the treebanks
folder, using the language code
and the treebank code in the file name.