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

Part-of-speech Reference Manual


Table of contents

Introduction

Adjectives (ADJ, ADJR, ADJS)
Weak adjective/noun ambiguity
Ordinal numbers
O+TRE
Adjectival use of quantifiers(MICEL and LYTEL)
NEAH (adjective)
SWELC and +TYLLIC
SELF
NUM + WINTRE (adjective)

Adverbial particles (RP)

Adverbs (ADV, ADVR, ADVS)
Classes of adverbs
Locative adverbs(ADV^L)
Directional adverbs (ADV^D)
Temporal adverbs (ADV^T)
Other adverbs (ADV)
Negative adverbs
Adverbial quantifiers
Adverb vs. preposition
NEAH, GEHENDE, FEOR (adverb)
GELICE
+AREST
OFER, TO, FOR
+TA (adverb)
HAM

Case (^N, ^A, ^G, ^D, ^I)
Instrumental case
Case on ambiguous items
Nom/acc ambiguities
Ambiguities among oblique cases
Some difficult cases
Case with prepositions
Case with adjectives
Genitive case marking relations between substantives
Case on quantifiers
Case with quantifiers
Case on participles
Participles as part of the main verb sequence
Participles as predicates of small clauses
Modifying and attributive participles
Case on left-dislocations

Complementizers (C)
+T+AT, +T+ATTE, +TE
SWA in free relative clauses
GIF in indirect questions

Conjunctions (CONJ)

Determiners (D)
Indefinite AN
Disambiguating +TA
+T+AT

Focus particles (FP)

Foreign words (FW)

Interjections (INTJ)

Metalinguistic information (CODE)

Nouns and pronouns
Pronouns (PRO, PRO$)
Personal pronouns (PRO)
Reflexive pronouns
Possessive pronouns (PRO$)
Indefinite MAN (MAN)
Singular, plural, and collective common nouns (N)
Adverbial use of nouns and adjectives
Proper nouns (NR)
Names of people
Names of places
Days of the week, months, and religious festivals/seasons
Names of languages
Names of God
Negation (NEG)

Numbers (NUM)
Case on numbers
Weak ANA

Prepositions (P)
Prepositions with R-pronouns
Prepositions with demonstratives (FOR+TI, FOR+TAN, etc.)
Prepositions and particles
Prepositions taking clausal complements
Modified prepositions (SWA SWA, +TA +TA etc.)
SWA (preposition)
+TONNE
TO/etc....WEARD, BE...TWEONUM
+TY L+AS (+TE)
+TEAH+TE, O+T+TE etc.
TO MIDDES, BE SU+TAN, etc.
SAM ... SAM
BUTON
GELICE (preposition)

Problematic cases (XX)

Punctuation (. ,)

Quantifiers (Q, QR, QS)
Wh-indefinites
Negative quantifiers
+AG+TER, NA+TOR (quantifiers)
MICEL and LYTEL
Undeclinable quantifiers FELA, LYT, MA, L+AS
Quantifiers used adverbially
Uninflected EALL

Special rules for late texts
Unexpected case (-c)
Details on individual late texts
cochronE.o34.psd
colsigewB.ox.psd
covinceB.ox.psd

Verbs (VB, AX, MD, BE, HV)
Categories of Verbs
Modal verbs (MD, etc.)
Auxiliary verbs (AX, etc.)
HAVE and BE (HV, BE, etc.)
UTAN
Lexical verbs (VB, etc.)
Particle verbs (RP+VB, etc.)
Mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative)
Participles (VAG, VBN, etc.)
Infinitives (VB, VB^D, etc.)
Inflected infinitives (VB^D, etc.)
Infinitive marker TO (TO)

Wh-words
Wh-pronoun (WPRO)
Wh-adjective (WADJ)
Wh-adverb (WADV)
HW+A+TER (WQ)
SW+A+TER/SWA HW+A+TER (WADJ)

Word division
Words that are always separated
Words given compound tags
Words treated as written
Compounds
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