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UD Egyptian PC

Language: Egyptian (code: egy)
Family: Afro-Asiatic

This treebank has been part of Universal Dependencies since the UD v2.14 release.

The following people have contributed to making this treebank part of UD: Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Bruno Guillaume, Daniel Zeman, Valentina Anselmi, Haleli Harel, Johannes Nikolaus Heinrich Schmitt.

Repository: UD_Egyptian-PC
Search this treebank on-line: PML-TQ
Download all treebanks: UD 2.19

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Genre: bible, fiction, nonfiction, government, poetry

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Egyptian-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 [radiaz (æt) ujaen • es]. Development of the treebank happens directly in the UD repository, so you may submit bug fixes as pull requests against the dev branch.

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

The Egyptian/Pre-Coptic treebank is the first dependency treebank created for the morphosyntactic annotation of pre-Coptic Egyptian. Its development is an international collaborative effort coordinated at the the University of Jaén (see team members below). The current version (UD v2.19) comprises annotated sentences drawn from Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, and Demotic texts.

The Egyptian/PC treebank (henceforth EPC; originally released as Egyptian-UJaen) features a manually annotated corpus of Egyptian texts using the Tübingen transcription system (see below). It was designed to contribute to the Universal Dependencies (UD) project and the PARSEME corpora of multiword expressions, allowing researchers to compare Egyptian morphosyntactic features with those of other languages. The EPC treebank started in UD release 2.14 with 5,515 words and 707 sentences. It contained Old Egyptian multiword expressions and sentences from the Pyramid Texts (see list of sources, below). Over successive updates, the annotation of the Pyramid Texts was expanded sequentially, adding Unas’s texts in release 2.15, Teti’s in 2.16, and Pepi I’s starting in 2.17. The annotation of the Pyramid Texts continued through the UD releases 2.18 and 2.19. The first Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian and Demotic texts were annotated in UD release 2.19.

Data exploration in the Pyramid Texts can be carried out using GrewPT

See also the Language Page for Egyptian; and the bibliography below.

Acknowledgments

This work received support from the CA21167 COST action UniDive, funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). I thank Agata Savary (UniDive/PARSEME), Daniel Zeman (UniDive/UD) and Marco Carlo Passarotti (CIRCSE) for introducing me to computational linguistics.

Statistics of UD Egyptian PC

POS Tags

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

Features

AdvType – Aspect – Case – Conjug – ExtPos – Foreign – Gender – Impersonal – Mood – NameType – Nisba – Nominal – Number – NumType – PartType – Person – Polarity – Poss – Prefix – PronClass – PronType – Reflex – StatPrep – SubForm – Tense – Typo – VerbClass – VerbForm – VerbType – Voice

Relations

acl – acl:relcl – advcl – advcl:consec – advcl:purp – advcl:tcl – advmod – advmod:neg – advmod:q – amod – appos – aux – case – cc – ccomp – ccomp:obj – ccomp:speech – compound – compound:a – conj – cop – csubj – csubj:outer – csubj:pass – dep – det – discourse – dislocated – dislocated:agent – dislocated:ccomp – dislocated:csubj – dislocated:nsubj – dislocated:obj – dislocated:obl – expl – expl:pv – expl:rel – fixed – flat:foreign – flat:name – list – mark – nmod – nmod:nisba – nmod:poss – nmod:unmarked – nsubj – nsubj:outer – nsubj:pass – nummod – obj – obl – obl:agent – obl:arg – obl:nisba – obl:unmarked – orphan – parataxis – punct – reparandum – root – vocative – xcomp

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

Morphology

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