UD for North Sami 
Tokenization and Word Segmentation
- The tokenisation is mainly based on white-space.
- The punctuation is used as part of the token for ordinals written with digits: “123.” as well some abbreviations.
- The initial tokenisation for the currently only treebank was made based on morphological analyser from giellatekno.
Morphology
Tags
- North Sámi uses all 17 universal POS categories
- North sámi has following auxiliaries:
- “leat” (to be, also to own etc.)
- “ii” (inflected negation verb)
- modals: … (list will be extended as the corpora gets larger)
Features
Verbal Features
- There are three main verbal forms distinguished by the value of VerbForm feature:
- Mood has four values:
Cnd,Imp,IndorPot. - Tense has two values:
PastorPres. - Voice has two values:
ActandPass. - Person has three values,
1,2and3. - Number has values
Sing,PlurandDual.
Nominal Features
- North Sámi does not have Gender feature
- Number feature has values:
Sing,PlurandDual - Case has 8 possible values:
Nom,Gen,Acc,Loc,Ill,Ess,Com,Abe
Degree and Polarity
- Degree applies to adjectives (ADJ), adverbs (ADV) and participles
(VERB or AUX), and has one of three possible values:
Pos,Cmp,Sup. - Polarity has only value
Neg, and applies to negative verb ‘ei’ - Connegative has only value
Yesand applies to verbs which have been negated by ‘ii’
Possessives
- Layered features are used for possessive suffixes:
- Number[psor] for number and Person[psor] for person of possessor
Syntax
- Nominal subject (nsubj) is typically a nominal in the nominative, genitive or partitive case, without preposition.
- Objects (obj) can be nominals in nominative, genitive, partitive or accusative case
- The copula verb leat (be) is used in equational, attributional, locative, possessive and benefactory nonverbal clauses.
- genetive modifier uses nmod:poss subtype
- acl:relcl is used for relative clauses
- aux:neg is used for negation
- compound:nn is used for titles etc compounds structures
Treebanks
There is 1 North Sámi UD treebanks: