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UD Dargwa Mehweb

Language: Dargwa (code: dar)
Family: Nakh-Daghestanian

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: Olga Lyashevskaya.

Repository: UD_Dargwa-Mehweb
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License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Genre: spoken

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Dargwa-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 [olesar (æt) yandex • ru]. 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 in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
UPOS annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
XPOS annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
Features annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
Relations annotated manually, natively in UD style

Description

UD Mehweb Dargwa is a Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank for the Dargwa Mehweb lect. The annotation was converted from interlinear glossed text and manually annotated for syntactic relations. The treebank includes a selection of sentences that presents oral conversation, oral folktales, Pear Stories, elicited examples, grammar examples. The treebank contains approximately 4,400 tokens.

Mehweb is a north-central lect of Dargwa languages spoken in East Caucasus. Dargwa Mehweb is spoken in the village Megeb (Republic of Daghestan, Russian Federation). The language is spoken by approximately 800 people (Dobrushina et al. 2017). Megeb is the only Dargwa village in the area surrounded by Lak and Avar villages. The official language of the village is Avar, children are taught Avar in school. Most of the speakers are bi- or trilingual (Kozhukhar & Barylnikova 2013).

The treebank consists of examples collected in (Daniel et al. 2019). The sentences are written in IPA-based orthography developed during the field trips in 2010s and provided with glosses based on Leipzig Glossing Rules and English translations.

The treebank includes a selection of sentences that presents oral conversation, oral folktales, Pear Stories, elicited examples, grammar examples. The treebank contains approximately 4,400 tokens. Most data were recorded during field trips to Megeb in 2013-2016. In addition, several sentences are taken from Magometov’s 1982 texts. The treebank presents oral data such as personal conversation, oral folktales, Pear Stories, elicited examples, grammar examples. The treebank contains approximately 4,400 tokens.

The sentences were converted from interlinear glossed text into CoNLL-U format using a custom conversion script (with minor manual corrections). The syntactic relations were subsequently manually annotated following the UD framework. A pilot lemma annotation was added using DarLing and the Dictionary of the Mehweb language.

Acknowledgments

Whe thank the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory (HSE University) and especially Sasha Kozhukhar and Nina Dobrushina.

References

Statistics of UD Dargwa Mehweb

POS Tags

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

Features

Aspect – Case – ConvType – ExtPos – Gender – Mood – NameType – Number – NumForm – NumType – Person – Person[subj] – Polarity – PronType – Reflex – Tense – VerbForm

Relations

acl – advcl – advmod – amod – aux – cc – ccomp – compound:lvc – compound:redup – compound:svc – conj – cop – csubj – dep – det – discourse – dislocated – fixed – flat:name – iobj – nmod – nsubj – nsubj:nc – nummod – obj – obl – obl:float – obl:tmod – 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).

Verbs with Reflexive Core Objects

Relations Overview