Arabic Treebank Notation

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Node labels and functional "dashtags":

Node (bracket) labels are syntactic (S, NP, VP, ADJP, etc.)
"Dashtags" are more or less semantic function (-SBJ subject, -OBJ object, -ADV adverbial, -TMP temporal, -PRD predicate, etc.). Dashtags are used only if they are relevant, not on every node label (see VP arguments and adjuncts below)

Empty categories

The empty categories are essentially the same as in the Penn English Treebank. The most common being

*
Pro-drop subjects and passive traces
*T*
WH-traces, NP-TPC trace to subject
*ICH*
Rightward movement (for the most part, also *RNR*, etc.)

As in the Penn Treebank, we are not showing any pronominal coreference. Coreference will be indicated only for empty categories and exceptional cases such as VP gapping structures.

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