A MANUAL FOR TECTOGRAMMATICAL TAGGING OF THE PRAGUE DEPENDENCY TREEBANK

This manual is supposed to introduce into the practice of syntactic tagging in the framework of the Prague Dependency Treebank (henceforth PDT). After a brief Introduction, a list of used symbols is given (Sect. 1) followed by a description of the automatic procedure dealing with grammatemes (Sect. 2.1), and by instructions covering further transducing (non-automatic, for the time being) of morphemic and analytic data to the tectogrammatical level. Section 2.2.1 concerns morphological grammatemes, and the subsequent sections (2.2.2-2.6) represent what is supposed to be of maximal importance for the majority of annotators: the parts dealing with functors and syntactic grammatemes. In the concluding Section 3 the topic-focus articulation is treated. Čermák and in cooperation with other research institutions) is conceived as a three-layer system of tags (Hajič, Hajičová, Rosen 1996): the individual layers can be characterized as follows: (i) morphemic tagging capturing relatively disambiguated values of morphemic categories; let us note that also a result of a full morphemic analysis is available, i.e., complete sets of values of individual forms without disambiguation: e.g., the form dobrým gets "I.SG or D.PL", yet for the tag just one of the two possibilities is chosen according to the given context; (ii) syntactic tags at the so-called analytic level, capturing the functions of individual word forms as they are expressed in the surface shape of the sentence; in the analytic tree structures (ATSs), every word token and punctuation mark has a corresponding node and is analyzed as for its POS and morphemic value, as well as for the main syntactic functions ('analytic functors', 'Afuns'); among the values of Afun, Subj, Obj, Adv are not classified in a more subtle way; (iii) syntactic tags at the tectogrammatical level (TGTSs) rendering the deep (underlying, tectogrammatical) structure of the sentence, i.e., its syntactic structure proper (with a detailed classification of functors, see below).