Overview of Syntex format

File format

The file format is a succession of 3 line groups like the following, describing a syntactic analysis.

<SEQ id=train-e-102-1_1; analyse=1;>

<TXT>That is why my colleague put forward his amendment

<ETIQ>ProRel|that|That|1|SUJ;2|0	VCONJS|be|is|2|0|SUJ;1	
CSub|why|why|3|0|0	Det|my|my|4|DET;5|0	
Nom?S|colleague|colleague|5|SUJ;6|DET;4	
VCONJ|put|put|6|0|ADV;7,SUJ;5,OBJ;9	
Adv|forward|forward|7|ADV;6|0	
Det|his|his|8|DET;9|0	
Nom?S|amendment|amendment|9|OBJ;6|DET;8	SENT|.|.|10|0|0	

Each token in the analysis is of the form:

grammatical category|lemma|original text|unique id|list of recteurs|list of regis

The list of recteurs or regis describe the syntactic relations in which this token is involved. They follow the format:

RELATION_CODE;token_id,RELATION_CODE;token_id …

Grammatical categories

Each token belongs to a grammatical category. The following table describes them.

Category

Category Code

Description

Adj

Adj

adjective (en)

 

Adj??

adjective | indeterminate gender and number (fr)

 

Adj?P

adjective | indeterminate gender, plural form (fr)

 

Adj?S

adjective | indeterminate gender, singular form (fr)

 

AdjFP

adjective | feminine gender, plural form (fr)

 

AdjFS

adjective | feminine gender, singular form (fr)

 

AdjIng

adjective in ~ing (en)

 

AdjMP

adjective | masculine gender, plural form (fr)

 

AdjMS

adjective | masculine gender, singular form (fr)

 

AdjNum

adjective | numeral

Adv

Adv

adverb

CCoord

CCoord

coordinating conjunction

CSub

CSub

subordination conjunction

Det

Det

determinant

 

Det??

determinant | indeterminate gender and number (fr)

 

Det?P

determinant | indeterminate gender, plural form (fr)

 

Det?S

determinant | indeterminate gender, singular form (fr)

 

DetFP

determinant | feminine gender, plural form (fr)

 

DetFS

determinant | feminine gender, singular form (fr)

 

DetMP

determinant | masculine gender, plural form (fr)

 

DetMS

determinant | masculine gender, singular form (fr)

 

DetNum

numerical determinant

Elim

Elim

eliminated

Nom

Nom?P

noun | plural form (en)

 

Nom?S

noun | singular form (en)

 

NomFP

noun | feminine gender, plural form (fr)

 

NomFS

noun | feminine gender, singular form (fr)

 

NomInc

unknown noun (fr)

 

NomIng

noun in ~ing (en)

 

NomMP

determinant | masculine gender, plural form (fr)

 

NomMS

determinant | masculine gender, singular form (fr)

 

NomPr

proper noun

 

NomPrXXInc

unknown proper noun (not found in dictionaries)

 

NomPrXXPrenom

unknown proper noun (first name)

 

NomXXAdr

address

 

NomXXDate

date

 

NomXXMail

email address

 

NomXXMes

measure unit

 

NomXXMon

currency unit

 

NomXXNum

numerical

 

NomXXTitre

title

 

NomXXUrl

url

Num

Num

number

POS

POS

‘s possessive (en)

Ppa

Ppa

past participle

 

PpaFP

past participle | feminine gender, plural form (fr)

 

PpaFS

past participle | feminine gender, singular form (fr)

 

PpaMP

past participle | masculine gender, plural form (fr)

 

PpaMS

past participle | masculine gender, singular form (fr)

Ppr

Ppr

present participle (fr)

 

PprIng

gerund (en)

 

PprIngp

passive gerund (en)

Prep

Prep

preposition

Pro

Pro

pronoun (except relative)

ProRel

ProRel

relative pronoun

RP

RP

postposition (en)

Typo

Typo

typographical character

VCONJ

VCONJ

conjugated verb (en)

 

VCONJP

conjugated verb | plural form (fr)

 

VCONJPp

conjugated verb | plural form, passive voice (fr)

 

VCONJS

conjugated verb | singular form (fr)

 

VCONJSp

conjugated verb | singular form, passive voice(fr)

VINF

VINF

verb, infinitive

 

VINFp

verb, infinitive, passive voice

 

Syntactic relations

A token may be involved in one or more relations. The following table describes them.

Relation Code

Description

Recteur Regi

ADJ

Adjective

Noun

Adj

ADV

Adverb

Adj, Verb

Adv

ATT

Attribute

Noun, Pronoun

Adj, Noun

CC

Coordinating conjunction

Coordinated words

Coord. Conjunction

DET

Determinant

Noun

Det

EPI

Epithet

Common noun

Common noun

NN

Noun

 

 

NNPR

Proper Noun

Proper noun

Proper noun

NOMPREP

Preposition (except French “de”)

Prep

Noun, verb (infinitive)

OBJ

Object

Verb

Noun, Pronoun, Verb (infinitive)

PRDE

French Preposition “de”

Verb, Noun, Adj.

Prep “de”

PREP

Preposition

Verb, Noun, Adj

Other prep

REL

 

 

 

SUJ

Subject

Verb

Noun, Pronoun

VBATT

Attribute

Attribute

Verb