docs/annotations/constituency/ptb.md
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| ADJP | Adjective Phrase. |
| ADVP | Adverb Phrase. |
| CONJP | Conjunction Phrase. |
| FRAG | Fragment. |
| INTJ | Interjection. Corresponds approximately to the part-of-speech tag UH. |
| LST | List marker. Includes surrounding punctuation. |
| NAC | Not a Constituent; used to show the scope of certain prenominal modifiers within an NP. |
| NP | Noun Phrase. |
| NX | - Used within certain complex NPs to mark the head of the NP. Corresponds very roughly to N-bar level but used quite differently. |
| PP | Prepositional Phrase. |
| PRN | Parenthetical |
| PRT | Particle. Category for words that should be tagged RP. |
| QP | Quantifier Phrase (i.e. complex measure/amount phrase); used within NP. |
| ROOT | No description |
| RRC | Reduced Relative Clause. |
| S | conjunction or a wh-word and that does not exhibit subject-verb inversion. |
| SBAR | Clause introduced by a (possibly empty) subordinating conjunction. |
| SBARQ | - Direct question introduced by a wh-word or a wh-phrase. Indirect questions and relative clauses should be bracketed as SBAR, not SBARQ. |
| SINV | - Inverted declarative sentence, i.e. one in which the subject follows the tensed verb or modal. |
| SQ | Inverted yes/no question, or main clause of a wh-question, following the wh-phrase in SBARQ. |
| UCP | Unlike Coordinated Phrase. |
| VP | Verb Phrase. |
| WHADJP | Wh-adjective Phrase. Adjectival phrase containing a wh-adverb, as in how hot. |
| WHADVP | - Wh-adverb Phrase. Introduces a clause with an NP gap. May be null (containing the 0 complementizer) or lexical, containing a wh-adverb such as how or why. |
| WHNP | - Wh-noun Phrase. Introduces a clause with an NP gap. May be null (containing the 0 complementizer) or lexical, containing some wh-word, e.g. who, which book, whose daughter, none of which, or how many leopards. |
| WHPP | - Wh-prepositional Phrase. Prepositional phrase containing a wh-noun phrase (such as of which or by whose authority) that either introduces a PP gap or is contained by a WHNP. |
| X | - Unknown, uncertain, or unbracketable. X is often used for bracketing typos and in bracketing the…the-constructions. |