Part-of-speech Tags Used
| Tag | Definition |
|---|---|
| . | sentence closer (. ; ? *) |
| ( | left paren |
| ) | right paren |
| * | not, n't |
| -- | dash |
| , | comma |
| : | colon |
| ABL | pre-qualifier (quite, rather) |
| ABN | pre-quantifier (half, all) |
| ABX | pre-quantifier (both) |
| AP | post-determiner (many, several, next) |
| AT | article (a, the, no) |
| BE | be |
| BED | were |
| BEDZ | was |
| BEG | being |
| BEM | am |
| BEN | been |
| BER | are, art |
| BEZ | is |
| CC | coordinating conjunction (and, or) |
| CD | cardinal numeral (one, two, 2, etc.) |
| CS | subordinating conjunction (if, although) |
| DO | do |
| DOD | did |
| DOZ | does |
| DT | singular determiner/quantifier (this, that) |
| DTI | singular or plural determiner/quantifier (some, any) |
| DTS | plural determiner (these, those) |
| DTX | determiner/double conjunction (either) |
| EX | existential there |
| FW | foreign word (hyphenated before regular tag) |
| HV | have |
| HVD | had (past tense) |
| HVG | having |
| HVN | had (past participle) |
| IN | preposition |
| JJ | adjective |
| JJR | comparative adjective |
| JJS | semantically superlative adjective (chief, top) |
| JJT | morphologically superlative adjective (biggest) |
| MD | modal auxiliary (can, should, will) |
| NC | cited word (hyphenated after regular tag) |
| NN | singular or mass noun |
| NN$ | possessive singular noun |
| NNS | plural noun |
| NNS$ | possessive plural noun |
| NP | proper noun or part of name phrase |
| NP$ | possessive proper noun |
| NPS | plural proper noun |
| NPS$ | possessive plural proper noun |
| NR | adverbial noun (home, today, west) |
| OD | ordinal numeral (first, 2nd) |
| PN | nominal pronoun (everybody, nothing) |
| PN$ | possessive nominal pronoun |
| PP$ | possessive personal pronoun (my, our) |
| PP$$ | second (nominal) possessive pronoun (mine, ours) |
| PPL | singular reflexive/intensive personal pronoun (myself) |
| PPLS | plural reflexive/intensive personal pronoun (ourselves) |
| PPO | objective personal pronoun (me, him, it, them) |
| PPS | 3rd. singular nominative pronoun (he, she, it, one) |
| PPSS | other nominative personal pronoun (I, we, they, you) |
| PRP | Personal pronoun |
| PRP$ | Possessive pronoun |
| QL | qualifier (very, fairly) |
| QLP | post-qualifier (enough, indeed) |
| RB | adverb |
| RBR | comparative adverb |
| RBT | superlative adverb |
| RN | nominal adverb (here, then, indoors) |
| RP | adverb/particle (about, off, up) |
| TO | infinitive marker to |
| UH | interjection, exclamation |
| VB | verb, base form |
| VBD | verb, past tense |
| VBG | verb, present participle/gerund |
| VBN | verb, past participle |
| VBP | verb, non 3rd person, singular, present |
| VBZ | verb, 3rd. singular present |
| WDT | wh- determiner (what, which) |
| WP$ | possessive wh- pronoun (whose) |
| WPO | objective wh- pronoun (whom, which, that) |
| WPS | nominative wh- pronoun (who, which, that) |
| WQL | wh- qualifier (how) |
| WRB | wh- adverb (how, where, when) |
Note that some versions of the tagged Brown corpus contain combined tags. For instance the word "wanna" is tagged VB+TO, since it is a contracted form of the two words, want/VB and to/TO. Also some tags might be negated, for instance "aren't" would be tagged "BER*", where * signifies the negation. Additionally, tags may have hyphenations: The tag -HL is hyphenated to the regular tags of words in headlines. The tag -TL is hyphenated to the regular tags of words in titles. The hyphenation -NC signifies an emphasized word. Sometimes the tag has a FW- prefix which means foreign word.
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