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flat: flat

The flat relation is used with compounding proper nouns, typically for places, organisations and so on. Note, we use the language specific labels flat:name and flat:foreign for personal names and text in foreign languges, respectively.

The flat label is also used to attach what was previously labelled as foreign.

Proper nouns

Tá muintir Chorcaí an-mhíshásta le Fianna Fáil ‘Cork people are very unhappy with Fianna Fáil

Sheas a hathair mar Shóisialaí Neamhspleách i dtoghachán na bliana 1969 i dtoghcheantar Bhaile Átha Cliath Thiar Thuaidh. ‘Her father stood as an Independent Socialist in the 1969 election in the Dublin City North West electoral area.’

Days of the week

is a particle that introduces days of the week. The particular day of the week follows in the genitive case. We treat this as having no phrasal structure, i.e. with the flat dependency relation.

Sathairn ‘(on) Saturday’

Ceardlann Aisteoireachta agus Drámaíochta i nGaoth Dobhair Dé Domhnaigh seo caite ‘Acting and Drama Workshop in Gweedore last Sunday’

ranganna seteanna agus céilí do dhaoine fásta gach oíche Dé Luain ag 8.30. ‘set dancing and céilí classes for adults every Monday night at 8.30.’

Date strings

Per the UD guidelines regarding the treatment of Dates and Complex Numerals, date expressions with a clear syntactic structure should be annotated with regular dependency relations.

Phós siad ar an 10ú lá de mhí na Nollag ‘They got married on the 10th of December’

However, the flat relation should be used for date expressions which have a flat structure with no clearly discernible head.

10 - 12 Deireadh Fómhair ‘10 - 12 December’

Ní mór na foirmeacha (…) a bheith san Ardoifig roimh 5.00 p.m., Aoine, 4 Aibreán 1997. The forms must be submitted to Head Office before 5:00 p.m., Friday, 4 April 1997.

Months of the year

Several months of the year in Irish are composed of two nouns with the second in the genitive case. In cases like these, the second noun is treated as flat on the first.

Meán Fómhair ‘September’


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