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UD Italian Old

Language: Italian (code: it)
Family: Indo-European, Romance

This treebank has been part of Universal Dependencies since the UD v2.13 release.

The following people have contributed to making this treebank part of UD: Claudia Corbetta, Marco Passarotti, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giovanni Moretti.

Repository: UD_Italian-Old
Search this treebank on-line: PML-TQ
Download all treebanks: UD 2.14

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Genre: poetry

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Italian-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 [claudia • corbetta (æt) unibg • it]. 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 in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD, with some manual corrections of the conversion
UPOS annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD, with some manual corrections of the conversion
XPOS assigned by a program, not checked manually
Features annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD, with some manual corrections of the conversion
Relations annotated manually, natively in UD style

Description

Italian-Old is a treebank containing Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, based on the 1994 Petrocchi edition and taken from the DanteSearch corpus, originally created at the University of Pisa, Italy. The syntactic annotation has been done from scratch, following UD annotation scheme.

It is a treebank of Old Italian, specifically Florentine. The Comedy was composed between approximately 1306 and 1321.

This treebank includes 2 402 sentences (82 644 tokens, counting only single tokens and not considering multi-token words) and is a literary text (poetry). It contains only Inferno and Purgatorio. Specifically, Inferno includes 1 228 sentences and 41 367 tokens and Purgatorio consists of 1 174 sentences and 41 277 tokens. We are currently working on annotating Paradiso.

The treebank is split into three subsets, dev, test and train, with approximate ratios of 15%, 15%, and 70%, respectively, for Inferno and Purgatorio. These subsets are then merged into unique dev, test and train sets.

The distribution of Inferno (tokens: 41 367) with respect to the subsets is as follows:

The distribution of Purgatorio (tokens: 41 277) with respect to the subsets is as follows:

Since the Italian-Old treebank is going to be expanded to include Paradiso, its structure is subject to changes.

Acknowledgments

This work has been carried out in collaboration with the research center CIRCSE (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano). We extend our gratitude to all the individuals who made this work possible. The annotation of the sonnet by Arnaut Daniel (Purgatorio, XXVI vv.140-147) was carried out by Michele Tron.

For any doubts, suggestions, or reports, please do not hesitate to contact the person in charge: claudia.corbetta@unibg.it.

References

To cite the treebank please refer to:

Other:

Statistics of UD Italian Old

POS Tags

ADJADPADVAUXCCONJDETINTJNOUNNUMPARTPRONPROPNPUNCTSCONJVERBX

Features

AspectCliticDefiniteDegreeForeignGenderMoodNumberNumTypePersonPossPronTypeReflexTenseVerbFormVoice

Relations

aclacl:relcladvcladvcl:cmpadvcl:predadvcl:relcladvmodadvmod:lmodadvmod:negadvmod:tmodamodapposauxaux:passcaseccccompccomp:relclccomp:reportedconjcopcsubjcsubj:passcsubj:relcldetdet:possdet:predetdiscoursedislocatedexplexpl:impersexpl:passexpl:pvfixedflatflat:foreignflat:nameflat:redupiobjmarknmodnmod:lmodnsubjnsubj:outernsubj:passnummodobjoblobl:agentobl:argobl:lmodobl:tmodorphanparataxispunctrootvocativexcomp

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).

Reflexive Verbs

Reflexive Passive

Verbs with Reflexive Core Objects

Relations Overview