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UD for Mundurukú

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

Words are delimited by whitespace characters
According to typographical rules, many punctuation marks are attached to a neighboring word. They are given as separate tokens (words);
There are no adjectives in Tupinambá. Modification is made by composition, juxtaposing lexical roots, so when a lexical root is modified by another a new word appears as in kuɲãporaŋ(a) ‘beautiful woman’ (kuɲã ‘woman’ + poraŋ-(a) ‘beauty’). Such words are treated sometimes as multiword tokens, sometimes as a single word.
Some compound words from Portuguese are written as one word, e.g. santaCruz ‘holy cross’.

Morphology

UPOS	XPOS
ADJ	adj
ADV	adv
INTJ	intj
NOUN	n
PROPN	ppn
VERB	v, vi, vt
ADP	pp
AUX	aux
CCONJ	cc
DET	det
NUM	num
PART	pcl
PRON	pro
SCONJ	sc
PUNCT	punct
SYM	sym
X	x

Nominal Features

NOUN, PROPN and PRON, are not marked for Gender.
Personal Pronouns and Person Markers distinguish Number(Singular or Plural). They also distinguish Clusivity in the 1^st person plural. Mundurukú marks the 3^rd person plural by adding the partical ip.
Another way to express existential predication is through the reduplication of a noun with the vowel e replacing the original vowel, e.g, xat ‘food’ xaxet ‘there is food’. These nouns receive a marked Redup=Ex (reduplication existential) in the FEATS column.
Mundurukú classifiers are lexical roots. Nouns in this function have the feature Noun=Clf.
The relational markers Rel, which indicate contiguity or non-contiguity between a head and its dependent, take respectively the following features: Rel=Cont and Rel=NCont.
Mundurukú has possessor markers that distinguish alienably and inalienably possessed nouns. These types of possession have the feature Poss and the values alienable (Poss=Ali), and inalienable (Poss=Inal).

Verbal Features

Verbs have a lexical Aspect: imperfective (Imp), perfective (Perf), iterative (Iter).
Some lexical roots can not easily be assigned to a specific lexical category. This is the case with kake and opop. These are tagged as AUX in the UPOS, and v:ex (existential verb) and aux respectively in the XPOS.
As a head marking language, Tupinambá cross-references both arguments of a two-place predicate, S and O, only when O is third person: a-s-epjak 1.SG-3(RELNCONT)-see ‘I see him/her/it/them’. The PERSON feature in this case ha sthe value Person=13 indicating that A is 1^st and O 3^rd person.
The protmanteau markers indicating 1 -> 2 (A is 1^st and U is 2^nd person) are asigned the PERSON feature Person12Sg and Person12Pl.

Mundurukú has some auxiliary verbs, which are tagged as AUX. The have two specific functions: indicate tense or posture. The table below, shows auxiliaries, giving their functions and giving their plural forms, which for some for some of the verbs have different forms for the singular and plural:

Auxiliary	Tense	Posture	Plural	Meaning
osusnuy	past			was/were
oeku	past			was/were in movement
osodop	past			was/were
e’em
dopdom			nuynuy
g̃uy				remain
jop				remain
cũg̃’i		standing	kacũg̃cũg̃’i
xik’i		sitting	kaxikxik’i
toro’i		hanging	katororo’i
mũg̃’i		leaning	kamũg̃mũg̃’i
po’i		laying	kapopo’i

Particles or reduplication mark Aspect or Tense.
Person can have the value 1, 2, and 3.
The feature Evident can take the following values in:
Clusivity is also distinguished.
There are three values for the Voice feature: Act, Mid Pass. All other verb forms have Voice=Act.

Syntax

Core Arguments, Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts

As a head-marking language, core arguments, except oblique core arguments are cross-referenced on the predicate. For this reason the feature Person takes values combining both arguments (A dn P): Person=13, Person=23, and Person=33. No other combinations occur.
The order of arguments cross-referenced on the predicate is SOV. These NPs are marked as obl ‘ obliques’, since they are not the core arguments.
Transitivity is found only with third person objects.
There is a split in alignment type based on verbal aspect.

Non-verbal clauses

Mundurukú has some lexemes that function as copula in non-verbal clauses for existentia and locational predicates. Examples are: opop, kug̃, and kake. These copular elements are not treated as the head of a clause, but rather the dependent of a lexical predicate

Treebanks

There is 1 Mundurukú UD treebank:

Munduruku-TuDeT