home en/feat edit page issue tracker

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:

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:

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:

Additionally, it is used for verbs that require a third person singular subject which have the PTB tag VBZ.

Examples:


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: 1, 2, 3.

26169 tokens (10%) have a non-empty value of Person. 545 types (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Person. 451 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 (18621; 7% instances), en-pos/VERB (5680; 2% instances), en-pos/AUX (1868; 1% instances).

PRON

18621 en-pos/PRON tokens (88% 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 (18621; 100%), Poss=EMPTY (14981; 80%), Gender=EMPTY (13806; 74%), Case=Nom (11774; 63%), Number=Sing (11043; 59%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Person:

Person seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 100% lemmas (19) occur only with one value of Person.

VERB

5680 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 (5680; 100%), Number=Sing (5680; 100%), Mood=Ind (5680; 100%), Tense=Pres (4715; 83%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Person:

Paradigm be13
Tense=Pastwaswas
Tense=Presamis, 's, s, ai

Person seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (432) occur only with one value of Person.

AUX

1868 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 (1868; 100%), Number=Sing (1868; 100%), Mood=Ind (1868; 100%), Tense=Pres (1362; 73%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Person:

Paradigm be13
Tense=Pastwaswas
Tense=Presamis, '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%).


Person in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]