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UD Cuicatec MesoTree

Language: Cuicatec (code: cux)
Family: Oto-Manguean

This treebank has been part of Universal Dependencies since the UD v2.19 release.

The following people have contributed to making this treebank part of UD: Robert Pugh, Francis Tyers, Lucía Lezama Tejada, Mazali Madai Herrera Ojeda, María Lilia Herrera Ojeda.

Repository: UD_Cuicatec-MesoTree
Search this treebank on-line: PML-TQ
Download all treebanks: UD 2.19

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Genre: grammar-examples

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Cuicatec-specific or cross-linguistic) can be raised in the main UD issue tracker. You can report bugs in this treebank in the treebank-specific issue tracker on Github. If you want to collaborate, please contact [ftyers (æt) iu • edu]. Development of the treebank happens outside the UD repository. If there are bugs, either the original data source or the conversion procedure must be fixed. Do not submit pull requests against the UD repository.

Annotation Source
Lemmas annotated manually
UPOS annotated manually, natively in UD style
XPOS not available
Features annotated manually, natively in UD style
Relations annotated manually, natively in UD style

Description

UD Cuicatec-MesoTree consists of sentences in Tepeuxila Cuicatec annotated as part of the NSF-funded project “Syntactically-annotated corpora for endangered languages in areal contact” (MesoTree).

Cuicatec (dibaku, dbaku, dubaku) is an Oto-Manguean language of the Mixtecan branch, spoken in the southern Cañada region of Oaxaca, Mexico. The treebank is of Tepeuxila Cuicatec (dbaku), spoken in the communities around San Juan Tepeuxila.

The pre-existing dictionary example sentences initially contemplated for annotation are in a variety of Tepeuxila Cuicatec different from that of the collaborators, so the treebank was instead created by:

The sentences are written following the collaborators’ own orthographic norms for their language variety. The original text is given in text[orig], a normalised version in text (affecting apostrophes and capitalisation), and a Spanish translation in text[spa]. Non-standard spellings are marked Typo=Yes, usually with the standard form in the MISC attribute Normal. The MISC column also contains morpheme glosses (Gloss) and Spanish word translations (Trad) for some of the words.

The sentences were annotated in a web interface combining UD Annotatrix and Arborator-Grew, with final annotations decided by group consensus. Lemmas and morphological features are not yet annotated for the whole corpus.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our Cuicatec collaborators who wrote, translated and annotated these sentences. This work was supported by NSF grant 2319246/2319247, “Collaborative Research: Syntactically-annotated corpora for endangered languages in areal contact”.

References

Statistics of UD Cuicatec MesoTree

POS Tags

ADJ – ADP – ADV – AUX – CCONJ – DET – INTJ – NOUN – NUM – PART – PRON – PROPN – PUNCT – SCONJ – VERB – X

Features

Animacy – Aspect – Gender – Mood – NounType – Number – NumType – Person – PronType – Subcat – Typo – VerbForm

Relations

acl – advcl – advmod – amod – appos – aux – case – cc – ccomp – clf – compound – conj – cop – csubj – dep – det – discourse – dislocated – flat – iobj – mark – nmod – nmod:poss – nsubj – nummod – obj – obl – orphan – parataxis – punct – root – vocative – xcomp

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

Morphology

Tags

Nominal Features

Degree and Polarity

Verbal Features

Pronouns, Determiners, Quantifiers

Other Features

Syntax

Auxiliary Verbs and Copula

Core Arguments, Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts

Here we consider only relations between verbs (parent) and nouns or pronouns (child).

Relations Overview