The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus
of Old English Prose

YCOE Lite: A beginner's guide to the York Corpus of Old English


Table of Contents

Introduction
Goals
A note on the examples
Glossary

Tokens

Labels
Formal labels
Function labels
Case

The structure of IP

The structure of phrases

Empty categories
Empty subjects
Wh-operators and traces
Non-wh- traces

Noun phrases (NP)
Case
Adjuncts
Arguments
Extent
Appositives
Multiple functions

Adjective phrases (ADJP)

Quantifier phrases (QP)

Prepositional phrases (PP)

Adverbial phrases (ADVP)
Locative, temporal, and directional

Finite IPs

Non-finite IPs
Infinitives (IP-INF, IP-INF-NCO)
Small clauses (IP-SMC)
Participial phrases (PTP)

Complementizer phrases (CP)

Wh- CPs
Questions (CP-QUE)
Relatives and clause-adjoined relatives (CP-REL, CP-CAR)
Free relative clauses (CP-FRL)
It-clefts (CP-CLF)
Comparatives (CP-CMP)
Infinitival relative/purpose clause with gap (CP-EOP)

Non-wh CPs
That-clauses (CP-THT)
Bare adverbial clauses (CP-ADV)
Adverbial clauses headed by prepositions (CP-ADV)
Degree clauses (CP-DEG)
Yes/no questions (CP-QUE)
V1 conditionals (CP-ADV)

Incomplete clauses
Incomplete IPs (IPX-)
Incomplete PTPs (PTPX-)
Incomplete CPs (CPX-)

Summary review
Clauses
Noun phrases

Conjunction
Phrasal conjunction
Word-level conjunction
Conjunction with shared modifiers
IP Conjunction
Right-node raising
Searching conjunction structures

Complete list of labels
Part-of-speech labels
Syntactic labels
© 2003 Ann Taylor and University of York