๐ŸŸซ Brown TAGS

= a popular set of ๐Ÿงฉ Parts of Speech tags

Tag-set1

TagDefinition
.sentence (. ; ? *)
(left paren
)right paren
*not, nโ€™t
โ€”dash
,comma
ABLpre-qualifier (quite, rather)
ABNpre-quantifier (half, all)
ABXpre-quantifier (both)
APpost-determiner (many, several, next)
ATarticle (a, the, no)
BEbe
BEDwere
BEDZwas
BEGbeing
BEMam
BENbeen
BERare, art
BBBis
CCcoordinating conjunction (and, or)
CDcardinal numeral (one, two, 2, etc.)
CSsubordinating conjunction (if, although)
DOdo
DODdid
DOZdoes
DTsingular determiner/quantifier (this, that)
DTIsingular or plural determiner/quantifier (some, any)
DTSplural determiner (these, those)
DTXdeterminer/double conjunction (either)
EXexistential there
FWforeign word (hyphenated before regular tag)
HLword occurring in the headline (hyphenated after regular tag)
HVhave
HVDhad (past tense)
HVGhaving
HVNhad (past participle)
HVZhas
INpreposition
JJadjective
JJRcomparative adjective
JJSsemantically superlative adjective (chief, top)
JJTmorphologically superlative adjective (biggest)
MDmodal auxiliary (can, should, will)
NCcited word (hyphenated after regular tag)
NNsingular or mass noun
NN$possessive singular noun
NNSplural noun
NNS$possessive plural noun
NPproper noun or part of name phrase
NP$possessive proper noun
NPSplural proper noun
NPS$possessive plural proper noun
NRadverbial noun (home, today, west)
NRSplural adverbial noun
ODordinal numeral (first, 2nd)
PNnominal pronoun (everybody, nothing)
PN$possessive nominal pronoun
PP$possessive personal pronoun (my, our)
PP\second (nominal) possessive pronoun (mine, ours)
PPLsingular reflexive/intensive personal pronoun (myself)
PPLSplural reflexive/intensive personal pronoun (ourselves)
PPOobjective personal pronoun (me, him, it, them)
PPS3rd. singular nominative pronoun (he, she, it, one)
PPSSother nominative personal pronoun (I, we, they, you)
QLqualifier (very, fairly)
QLPpost-qualifier (enough, indeed)
RBadverb
RBRcomparative adverb
RBTsuperlative adverb
RNnominal adverb (here, then, indoors)
RPadverb/particle (about, off, up)
TLword occurring in title (hyphenated after regular tag)
TOinfinitive marker to
UHinterjection, exclamation
VBverb, base form
VBDverb, past tense
VBGverb, present participle/gerund
VBNverb, past participle
VBPverb, non 3rd person, singular, present
VBZverb, 3rd. singular present
WDTwh- determiner (what, which)
WP$possessive wh- pronoun (whose)
WPOobjective wh- pronoun (whom, which, that)
WPSnominative wh- pronoun (who, which, that)
WQLwh- qualifier (how)
WRBwh- adverb (how, where, when)

Footnotes

  1. Brown Corpus (Wikipedia) โ†ฉ