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UD for Veps

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

• The main tokenization is the standard white-space delimited approach with punctuations separated.
• Punctuation marks are treated as separate tokens; the exceptions include apostrophes, what mark palatalizations; ordinary numbers (23. sügüz’ku) abbreviations (they can be written with and without period).

Morphology

Tags

• Veps uses 13 universal POS categories
  • DET (determiner), INT (interjection), SYM (symbol), X (other) categories are currently not used
• Veps has the following auxiliary verbs:
  • “olda” (to be, also to own etc.)
  • “ei” (negation of verb)
  • modals: “voida”, “sada” (can), “pidada” (must). (list can be extended as the corpora gets larger)

Features

Verbal Features

• There are five main verbal forms, distinguished by the value of the VerbForm feature:
  • Infinitive Inf, tagged VERB or AUX.
  • Finite verb Fin, tagged VERB or AUX.
  • Participle Part, tagged VERB or AUX (the so-called l-participle) or ADJ (all other participle types).
  • Supine Sup, tagged VERB or AUX.
  • Converb Conv, tagged VERB or AUX.
• Mood has two values: Cnd or Ind.
  • values Imp and Pot can be added as the corpora gets larger
• Tense has two values: Past or Pres.
• Voice has two values: Act and Pass.
• Person has three values, 1, 2 and 3.
• Number has two values Sing or Plur.

Nominal Features

• Veps does not have Gender feature
• Number feature has two possible values: Sing and Plur
• Case has 15 possible values: Abl, Ade, All, Apr, Com, Ela, Ess, Gen, Ill, Ine, Nom, Par, Pro, Ter, Tra
  • values Abe and Egr can be added as the corpora gets larger

Degree and Polarity

• Degree applies to adjectives (ADJ) and has one of two possible values: Pos, Cmp
  • value Sup can be added as the corpora gets larger
  • value Dim can be added and applied to nouns as the corpora gets larger
• Polarity has only value Neg, and applies to auxiliarie ‘ei’
• Connegative has only value Yes and applies to verbs which have been negated by ‘ei’.

Pronouns, Determiners, Quantifiers

• PronType is used with pronouns (PRON).
• NumType is used with numerals (NUM) and adjectives (ADJ).
• The Reflex feature marks reflexive pronouns (ičeze). In Veps it is always used together with PronType=Prs.
• Person is a lexical feature of personal pronouns (PRON) and has three values, 1, 2 and 3.
• PronType is a list based feature of pronouns and determiners and it has the following values:
  • “PronType=Dem” for demonstrative pronouns
  • “PronType=Int” for interrogative pronouns
  • “PronType=Prs” for personal pronouns
  • “PronType=Tot” for total (collective) pronouns (kaik)

### Other Features

• Veps treebank has the following language-specific features:
  • NumForm has two values: Digit or Letter.
  • NumType has a value Card for cardinal numbers and Ord for ordinal numbers.
  • AdpType distincts preopositions AdpType=Prep and postpositions AdpType=Post.
  • Clitic marks an indefinite article as a clitic (se)

Syntax

• Nominal subject (nsubj) is typically a nominal in the nominative, genitive or partitive case, without preposition.
  • An infinitive verb may serve as the subject and is labeled as clausal subject, csubj.
• Objects (obj) can be nominals in nominative, genitive or partitive case.
  • The infinitival complement is labeled as xcomp or ccomp.
• The copula verb olda (be) is used in equational, attributional, locative, possessive and benefactory nonverbal clauses.

Relations Overview

• The following relation subtypes are used in Veps:
  • acl:relcl for relative clauses
  • csubj:cop for clausal or infinitive subject in copula clauses.
  • nsubj:cop for nominal subject in copula clauses
  • flat:name for names with two or more components.

Treebanks

There is 1 Veps UD treebanks:

• Veps-VWT

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