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UD Sinhala STB

Language: Sinhala (code: si)
Family: Indo-European, Indic

This treebank has been part of Universal Dependencies since the UD v2.11 release.

The following people have contributed to making this treebank part of UD: Liyanage Chamila, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer.

Repository: UD_Sinhala-STB
Search this treebank on-line: PML-TQ
Download all treebanks: UD 2.13

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Genre: fiction, government, news, nonfiction, web

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Sinhala-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 [chamila • 82 (æt) gmail • com, sarves (æt) univ • jfn • ac • lk]. 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 annotated manually
Features annotated manually, natively in UD style
Relations annotated manually, natively in UD style

Description

This treebank consists contemporary written Sinhala text taken from a 10M corpus maintained by UCSC, Sri Lanka. The corpus contains novels, short stories, Sinhala translations, critiques and Sinhala newspapers.

The Sinhala language is an Ido-aryan language spoken by about 20 million people around the world. It is one of the two official languages in Sri Lanka spoken by 75\% of its population. Sinhala has been influenced by Portuguese, Dutch, English and Tamil languages in addition to Sanskrit and Pali.

Acknowledgments

References

Gunasekara, A. M. (1891). A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese Language. Godage International Publishers, Sri Lanka.

Karunatillake, W. S. (2009). Sinhala bhasha vyakaranaya. M. D. Gunasena & Co. Ltd, Sri Lanka.

Kumarathunga, M. (1993). kriya viwaranaya. M.D. Gunasena & Company Limited, Sri Lanka.

Kumarathunga, M. (2000). vyakarana vivaranaya. S. Godage & Brothers, Sri Lanka.

Sumanasara, T. (2007). Sinhala Bhashave Vyakaranaya. Wijesooriya Grantha Kendraya, Sri Lanka.

Sumangala, H. (1937). Sinhala vyakarana pari:kshanaya. D. C. Karunanayaka, Sri Lanka.

Statistics of UD Sinhala STB

POS Tags

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

Features

AdpType – AdvType – Animacy – Aspect – Case – Definite – Degree – Foreign – Gender – Mood – Number – NumType – Person – Polarity – Poss – PronType – Tense – Typo – VerbForm – Voice

Relations

acl – advcl – advmod – advmod:emph – amod – aux – aux:pass – case – cc – ccomp – compound – compound:lvc – compound:prt – compound:svc – conj – cop – csubj – dep – det – det:poss – flat – mark – nmod – nmod:poss – nmod:tmod – nsubj – nummod – obj – obl – obl:lmod – obl:tmod – punct – root – 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