UD for Telugu
Tokenization and Word Segmentation
- In general, words are delimited by whitespace characters. Description of exceptions follows.
- According to typographical rules, many punctuation marks are attached to a neighboring word. These are normally tokenized as separate tokens (words); exceptions include abbreviations (the abbreviation-marking period is part of the main token) and hyphenated compounds (the hyphen does not split the token).
- There are no multiword tokens.
Morphology
Tags
- The Telugu treebank currently uses only 14 of the 17 universal POS categories, including particles (PART). There are no auxiliary verbs, symbols and unknown words.
- The pronoun (PRON) vs. determiner (DET) distinction is based on word lists because the traditional grammar does not define determiners.
Features
- The corpus currently does not include morphological features, except for NumType
=Card
, marking cardinal numerals.
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
Core Arguments, Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts
- Nominal subject (nsubj) is a bare noun phrase (without adposition) in the nominative case.
- A subordinate clause may serve as the subject and is labeled csubj.
- Direct object (obj) is a bare noun phrase in accusative.
- Accusative objects of some verbs alternate with finite clausal complements, which are labeled ccomp.
Non-verbal Clauses
- Non-verbal clauses do not use a copula.
Relations Overview
- The following relation subtypes are used in Telugu:
- nsubj:nc for non-canonical subject, such as a nominal in the dative case
- acl:relcl for relative clauses
- advcl:cond for conditional adverbial clauses
- compound:lvc for light verb constructions
- compound:svc for serial verb constructions
- compound:redup for reduplications
- nmod:poss for possessive/genitive modifiers
- nmod:tmod for temporal modifiers (a nominal modifies another nominal)
- obl:tmod for temporal modifiers (a nominal modifies a clause)
- obl:cau for oblique participants in the causative case (the causees)
- obl:cmp for standards of comparison
- The following relation types are not used in Telugu at all: expl, aux, cop, fixed
Treebanks
There is 1 Telugu UD treebank: