NegraCorpusNodes

List of the phrasal categories used in the NEGRA project

AA superlative phrase with "am"

  • Karl lachte [am lautesten]
  • der [AP: [AA: am lautesten] lachende] Mann

AP adjective phrase

An adjective (ADJA, ADJD, MTA, also CARD) + its dependents.
  • das [vom Repertoir her unerschrockene] Ensemble
  • die [an sich netten] Melodien
  • Peter ist [an sich ganz nett]
also:
  • participial phrases:
    • der [nach Hamburg fahrende] Mann
  • modified determiners and numbers:
    • [gar keine] Freude
    • [ca. 10] Jugendliche
    • [AP: rund [NM: 10 000]] Jahre

AVP adverbial phrase

phrase headed by an adverb
  • [AVP: gar nicht]
  • [AVP: so ] wichtig
  • [AVP: dass...]

CAC coordinated adpositions (prepositions or postpositions, APPR, APZR, APPO)

  • die Zuege [von und nach] Hamburg

CAP coordinated adjektive phrase

The conjuncts are APs, CAPs and adjectives (ADJA, ADJD, CARD).
  • die [CAP: alten und neuen] Ideen

CAVP coordinated adverbial phrase

Coordination of AVPs, CAVPs and adverbs (ADV).
  • [CAVP: [ADV: nur heute] oder nie]
  • [CAVP: heute und morgen]

CCP coordinated complementiser

  • [ob und wann] er kommt

CH chunk

CNP coordinated noun phrase

Possible conjuncts: NPs, NNs, NEs, MPNs.
  • [CNP: [NP: ein Mann] und [NP: eine Frau]]
  • [CNP: Peter und [NP: sein Onkel]]
  • [NP: die [CNP: Jungen und Maedchen]]

CO coordination

coordination of different categories (S+NP, NP+PP, etc.).
  • [CO: [NP: jeden Tag] oder [PP: zumindest am kommenden Freitag]]

CPP coordinated adpositional phrase

Coordination of PPs and prepositional adverbs (PP+PP, PP+PROAV,...)
  • [CPP: [in der Stadt] und [auf dem Lande]]
  • [CPP: [fuer die Reformen] oder dagegen]

CS coordinated sentence

Coordination of sentences (or sentence chunks).
  • [CS: [S: Peter kommt] und [S: Paul geht]]
  • [CS: [S: Er kam], sah und siegte]

CVP coordinated verb phrase (non-finite)

Coordination of (possibly incomplete) non-finite VPs.
  • Er wollte [CVP: [VP: Peter besuchen] und [VP: Hans anrufen]]
  • Er wollte [CVP: [VP: uns besuchen] oder anrufen]

CVZ coordinated zu-marked infinitive

  • [[zu vergessen] und [zu vergeben]]
  • [einzusteigen und [zu bleiben]]

DL discourse level constituent

A discourse unit without explicit syntactic dependencies between its components.
  • [ ["Lass mich in Ruhe!"] [aergerte sich Peter] ]

ISU idiosyncratic unit

MPN multi-word proper noun

Name consisting of several words (1st name+family name, etc.).
  • [Karl Schulz]
  • [Bad Muenstereifel]

MTA multi-token adjective

Adjective related to a multi-token proper noun.
  • die [MTA: Bad Godesberger] Buerger

NM multi-token number

  • [NP: [NM: eine Million] Menschen]
  • [NP: [NM: 10 000] Menschen]

NP noun phrase

Head noun + its modifiers, complements, determiners.
  • [NP: der Mann]
  • [NP: der alte Mann]
  • [NP: der Mann [PP: aus Hamburg]]

PP adpositional phrase

Basically, an NP containing a pre- post- or circumposition. Note that there is no embedded NP in the P, so: [PP: in der Stadt], and NOT [PP: in [NP: der Stadt]]
  • [PP: in der Stadt]
  • [PP: meiner Meinung nach]
  • [PP: um die Stadt herum]
PP is also the category of correlative constructions of the form: PROAV + VP/S
  • [PP: dagegen, [dass er kommt]]

QL quasi-language

S sentence

In most cases, a finite verb + its dependents.
  • Hans liebt Maria.
The verb can be missing in elliptic constructions.
  • [S: Gut, [S: dass du kommst]]

VP verb phrase (non-finite)

Basically, a non-finite verb form (past participle, infinitive) with its dependents.
  • Peter will [VP: uns besuchen]

VZ zu-marked infinitive

(only if "zu" is written as a separate word)
  • Er versucht, uns [VZ: zu taeuschen]
But:
  • Er versucht, wegzufahren=PROAV

__Related topics: NegraCorpus, NegraCorpusEdges, NegraGrammar

-- MichaelDaum - 01 Aug 2002
 
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