Table 3.
List of POS tag and syntactic dependency labels
| POS tag | Dependency label | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning |
| ADD | acl | clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause) | |
| AFX | affix | acomp | adjectival complement |
| CC | conjunction, coordinating | advcl | adverbial clause modifier |
| CD | cardinal number | advmod | adverbial modifier |
| DT | determiner | agent | agent |
| EX | existential there | amod | adjectival modifier |
| FW | foreign word | appos | appositional modifier |
| HYPH | punctuation mark, hyphen | attr | attribute |
| IN | conjunction, subordinating or preposition | aux | auxiliary |
| JJ | adjective | auxpass | auxiliary (passive) |
| JJR | adjective, comparative | case | case marking |
| JJS | adjective, superlative | cc | coordinating conjunction |
| LS | list item marker | ccomp | clausal complement |
| MD | verb, modal auxiliary | compound | compound |
| NFP | superfluous punctuation | conj | conjunct |
| NN | noun, singular or mass | csubj | clausal subject |
| NNP | noun, proper singular | csubjpass | clausal subject (passive) |
| NNPS | noun, proper plural | dative | dative |
| NNS | noun, plural | dep | unclassified dependent |
| PDT | predeterminer | det | determiner |
| POS | possessive ending | dobj | direct object |
| PRP | pronoun, personal | expl | expletive |
| PRP$ | pronoun, possessive | intj | interjection |
| RB | adverb | mark | marker |
| RBR | adverb, comparative | meta | meta modifier |
| RBS | adverb, superlative | neg | negation modifier |
| RP | adverb, particle | nmod | modifier of nominal |
| SYM | symbol | npadvmod | noun phrase as adverbial modifier |
| TO | infinitival “to” | nsubj | nominal subject |
| UH | interjection | nsubjpass | nominal subject (passive) |
| VB | verb, base form | nummod | numeric modifier |
| VBD | verb, past tense | oprd | object predicate |
| VBG | verb, gerund or present participle | parataxis | parataxis |
| VBN | verb, past participle | pcomp | complement of preposition |
| VBP | verb, non-3rd person singular present | pobj | object of preposition |
| VBZ | verb, 3rd person singular present | poss | possession modifier |
| WDT | wh-determiner | preconj | pre-correlative conjunction |
| WP | wh-pronoun, personal | predet | None |
| WP$ | wh-pronoun, possessive | prep | prepositional modifier |
| WRB | wh-adverb | prt | particle |
| punct | punctuation | ||
| quantmod | modifier of quantifier | ||
| relcl | relative clause modifier | ||
| xcomp | open clausal complement | ||