VerbForm: form of verb or deverbative
Description
Verb’s forms and certain deverbal forms are marked with a VerbForm feature. The
finite verb forms are marked with value Fin, here Uralic tradition matches
guidelines quite well. Other values are described very differently even between
Uralic grammars and care should be taken mapping them to UD. Some hints:
Infshould be used for (at least some) of the infinitives.- If infinitives have case suffixes, they are also marked.
- Infinitives that are used in verb chains are usually tagged with
Infvalue. - Infinitives are usually deverbal nouns but with limited Case inflection, this is included in features
- If an infinitive described in traditional grammar has full nominal paradigm it can be considered as derivation unless syntax somewhat requires it to be a verb.
- Infinitives can have Voice
Partshould be used for (some of the) participles.- if infinitive or participle of a traditional grammar acts as an adverb, it can
be tagged with
Convfor converbs - Gerund and Supine can be used for the remaining infinitive types if they cannot be considered as derivations
As a rule of thumb, be systematic in features and values of non-finite verb forms and ensure distinctions are retained, so they can be later automatically converted if needed. Also keep in mind that you can record traditional grammar stuffs in the XPOS and MISC fields, while UD versions make things comparabler between languages.
Since VerbForms are so various in Uralics, the language-specific documentation should include an overview to this.
VerbForm in other languages: [ab] [abq] [akk] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cu] [cy] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gub] [gun] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kpv] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl]