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
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.
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
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MichaelDaum - 01 Aug 2002