Tag Description Examples -- dash -- ( opening parenthesis ( ) closing parenthesis ) * negator not n't "," comma "," . sentence terminator . ? ; ! : : colon : ABL "determiner/pronoun, pre-qualifier " quite such rather ABN "determiner/pronoun, pre-quantifier " all half many nary ABX "determiner/pronoun, double conjunction or pre-quantifier " both AP "determiner/pronoun, post-determiner " many other next more last former little several enough most least only very few fewer past same Last latter less single plenty 'nough lesser certain various manye next-to-last particular final previous present nuf AP$ "determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, genitive " other's AP+AP "determiner/pronoun, post-determiner, hyphenated pair " many-much AT article the an no a every th' ever' ye BE "verb ""to be"", infinitive or imperative " be BED "verb ""to be"", past tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " were BED* "verb ""to be"", past tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural, negated " weren't BEDZ "verb ""to be"", past tense, 1st and 3rd person singular " was BEDZ* "verb ""to be"", past tense, 1st and 3rd person singular, negated " wasn't BEG "verb ""to be"", present participle or gerund " being BEM "verb ""to be"", present tense, 1st person singular " am BEM* "verb ""to be"", present tense, 1st person singular, negated " ain't BEN "verb ""to be"", past participle " been BER "verb ""to be"", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " are art BER* "verb ""to be"", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural, negated " aren't ain't BEZ "verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " is BEZ* "verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular, negated " isn't ain't CC "conjunction, coordinating " and or but plus & either neither nor yet 'n' and/or minus an' CD "numeral, cardinal " "two one 1 four 2 1913 71 74 637 1937 8 five three million 87-31 29-5 seven 1,119 fifty-three 7.5 billion hundred 125,000 1,700 60 100 six ..." CD$ "numeral, cardinal, genitive " 1960's 1961's .404's CS "conjunction, subordinating " that as after whether before while like because if since for than altho until so unless though providing once lest s'posin' till whereas whereupon supposing tho' albeit then so's 'fore DO "verb ""to do"", uninflected present tense, infinitive or imperative " do dost DO* "verb ""to do"", uninflected present tense or imperative, negated " don't DO+PPSS "verb ""to do"", past or present tense + pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " d'you DOD "verb ""to do"", past tense " did done DOD* "verb ""to do"", past tense, negated " didn't DOZ "verb ""to do"", present tense, 3rd person singular " does DOZ* "verb ""to do"", present tense, 3rd person singular, negated " doesn't don't DT "determiner/pronoun, singular " this each another that 'nother DT$ "determiner/pronoun, singular, genitive " another's DT+BEZ "determiner/pronoun + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " that's DT+MD determiner/pronoun + modal auxillary that'll this'll DTI "determiner/pronoun, singular or plural " any some DTS "determiner/pronoun, plural " these those them DTS+BEZ "pronoun, plural + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " them's DTX "determiner, pronoun or double conjunction " neither either one EX existential there there EX+BEZ "existential there + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " there's EX+HVD "existential there + verb ""to have"", past tense " there'd EX+HVZ "existential there + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " there's EX+MD existential there + modal auxillary there'll there'd FW-* foreign word: negator pas non ne FW-AT foreign word: article la le el un die der ein keine eine das las les Il FW-AT+NN "foreign word: article + noun, singular, common " l'orchestre l'identite l'arcade l'ange l'assistance l'activite L'Universite l'independance L'Union L'Unita l'osservatore FW-AT+NP "foreign word: article + noun, singular, proper " L'Astree L'Imperiale FW-BE "foreign word: verb ""to be"", infinitive or imperative " sit FW-BER "foreign word: verb ""to be"", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " sind sunt etes FW-BEZ "foreign word: verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " ist est FW-CC "foreign word: conjunction, coordinating " et ma mais und aber och nec y FW-CD "foreign word: numeral, cardinal " une cinq deux sieben unam zwei FW-CS "foreign word: conjunction, subordinating " bevor quam ma FW-DT "foreign word: determiner/pronoun, singular " hoc FW-DT+BEZ "foreign word: determiner + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " c'est FW-DTS "foreign word: determiner/pronoun, plural " haec FW-HV "foreign word: verb ""to have"", present tense, not 3rd person singular " habe FW-IN foreign word: preposition ad de en a par con dans ex von auf super post sine sur sub avec per inter sans pour pendant in di FW-IN+AT foreign word: preposition + article della des du aux zur d'un del dell' FW-IN+NN "foreign word: preposition + noun, singular, common " d'etat d'hotel d'argent d'identite d'art FW-IN+NP "foreign word: preposition + noun, singular, proper " d'Yquem d'Eiffel FW-JJ foreign word: adjective avant Espagnol sinfonica Siciliana Philharmonique grand publique haute noire bouffe Douce meme humaine bel serieuses royaux anticus presto Sovietskaya Bayerische comique schwarzen ... FW-JJR "foreign word: adjective, comparative " fortiori FW-JJT "foreign word: adjective, superlative " optimo FW-NN "foreign word: noun, singular, common " ballet esprit ersatz mano chatte goutte sang Fledermaus oud def kolkhoz roi troika canto boite blutwurst carne muzyka bonheur monde piece force ... FW-NN$ "foreign word: noun, singular, common, genitive " corporis intellectus arte's dei aeternitatis senioritatis curiae patronne's chambre's FW-NNS "foreign word: noun, plural, common " al culpas vopos boites haflis kolkhozes augen tyrannis alpha-beta-gammas metis banditos rata phis negociants crus Einsatzkommandos kamikaze wohaws sabinas zorrillas palazzi engages coureurs corroborees yori Ubermenschen ... FW-NP "foreign word: noun, singular, proper " Karshilama Dieu Rundfunk Afrique Espanol Afrika Spagna Gott Carthago deus FW-NPS "foreign word: noun, plural, proper " Svenskarna Atlantes Dieux FW-NR "foreign word: noun, singular, adverbial " heute morgen aujourd'hui hoy FW-OD "foreign word: numeral, ordinal " 18e 17e quintus FW-PN "foreign word: pronoun, nominal " hoc FW-PP$ "foreign word: determiner, possessive " mea mon deras vos FW-PPL "foreign word: pronoun, singular, reflexive " se FW-PPL+VBZ "foreign word: pronoun, singular, reflexive + verb, present tense, 3rd person singular " s'excuse s'accuse FW-PPO "pronoun, personal, accusative " lui me moi mi FW-PPO+IN "foreign word: pronoun, personal, accusative + preposition " mecum tecum FW-PPS "foreign word: pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular " il FW-PPSS "foreign word: pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " ich vous sie je FW-PPSS+HV "foreign word: pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to have"", present tense, not 3rd person singular " j'ai FW-QL foreign word: qualifier minus FW-RB foreign word: adverb bas assai deja um wiederum cito velociter vielleicht simpliciter non zu domi nuper sic forsan olim oui semper tout despues hors FW-RB+CC "foreign word: adverb + conjunction, coordinating " forisque FW-TO+VB "foreign word: infinitival to + verb, infinitive " d'entretenir FW-UH foreign word: interjection sayonara bien adieu arigato bonjour adios bueno tchalo ciao o FW-VB "foreign word: verb, present tense, not 3rd person singular, imperative or infinitive " nolo contendere vive fermate faciunt esse vade noli tangere dites duces meminisse iuvabit gosaimasu voulez habla ksu'u'peli'afo lacheln miuchi say allons strafe portant FW-VBD "foreign word: verb, past tense " stabat peccavi audivi FW-VBG "foreign word: verb, present participle or gerund " nolens volens appellant seq. obliterans servanda dicendi delenda FW-VBN "foreign word: verb, past participle " vue verstrichen rasa verboten engages FW-VBZ "foreign word: verb, present tense, 3rd person singular " gouverne sinkt sigue diapiace FW-WDT foreign word: WH-determiner quo qua quod que quok FW-WPO "foreign word: WH-pronoun, accusative " quibusdam FW-WPS "foreign word: WH-pronoun, nominative " qui HV "verb ""to have"", uninflected present tense, infinitive or imperative " have hast HV* "verb ""to have"", uninflected present tense or imperative, negated " haven't ain't HV+TO "verb ""to have"", uninflected present tense + infinitival to " hafta HVD "verb ""to have"", past tense " had HVD* "verb ""to have"", past tense, negated " hadn't HVG "verb ""to have"", present participle or gerund " having HVN "verb ""to have"", past participle " had HVZ "verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " has hath HVZ* "verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular, negated " hasn't ain't IN preposition of in for by considering to on among at through with under into regarding than since despite according per before toward against as after during including between without except upon out over ... IN+IN "preposition, hyphenated pair " f'ovuh IN+PPO "preposition + pronoun, personal, accusative " t'hi-im JJ adjective recent over-all possible hard-fought favorable hard meager fit such widespread outmoded inadequate ambiguous grand clerical effective orderly federal foster general proportionate ... JJ$ "adjective, genitive " Great's JJ+JJ "adjective, hyphenated pair " big-large long-far JJR "adjective, comparative " greater older further earlier later freer franker wider better deeper firmer tougher faster higher bigger worse younger lighter nicer slower happier frothier Greater newer Elder ... JJR+CS "adjective + conjunction, coordinating " lighter'n JJS "adjective, semantically superlative " top chief principal northernmost master key head main tops utmost innermost foremost uppermost paramount topmost JJT "adjective, superlative " best largest coolest calmest latest greatest earliest simplest strongest newest fiercest unhappiest worst youngest worthiest fastest hottest fittest lowest finest smallest staunchest ... MD modal auxillary should may might will would must can could shall ought need wilt MD* "modal auxillary, negated " cannot couldn't wouldn't can't won't shouldn't shan't mustn't musn't MD+HV "modal auxillary + verb ""to have"", uninflected form " shouldda musta coulda must've woulda could've MD+PPSS "modal auxillary + pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " willya MD+TO modal auxillary + infinitival to oughta NN "noun, singular, common " failure burden court fire appointment awarding compensation Mayor interim committee fact effect airport management surveillance jail doctor intern extern night weekend duty legislation Tax Office ... NN$ "noun, singular, common, genitive " season's world's player's night's chapter's golf's football's baseball's club's U.'s coach's bride's bridegroom's board's county's firm's company's superintendent's mob's Navy's ... NN+BEZ "noun, singular, common + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " water's camera's sky's kid's Pa's heat's throat's father's money's undersecretary's granite's level's wife's fat's Knife's fire's name's hell's leg's sun's roulette's cane's guy's kind's baseball's ... NN+HVD "noun, singular, common + verb ""to have"", past tense " Pa'd NN+HVZ "noun, singular, common + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " guy's Knife's boat's summer's rain's company's NN+IN "noun, singular, common + preposition " buncha NN+MD "noun, singular, common + modal auxillary " cowhand'd sun'll NN+NN "noun, singular, common, hyphenated pair " stomach-belly NNS "noun, plural, common " irregularities presentments thanks reports voters laws legislators years areas adjustments chambers $100 bonds courts sales details raises sessions members congressmen votes polls calls ... NNS$ "noun, plural, common, genitive " taxpayers' children's members' States' women's cutters' motorists' steelmakers' hours' Nations' lawyers' prisoners' architects' tourists' Employers' secretaries' Rogues' ... NNS+MD "noun, plural, common + modal auxillary " duds'd oystchers'll NP "noun, singular, proper " Fulton Atlanta September-October Durwood Pye Ivan Allen Jr. Jan. Alpharetta Grady William B. Hartsfield Pearl Williams Aug. Berry J. M. Cheshire Griffin Opelika Ala. E. Pelham Snodgrass ... NP$ "noun, singular, proper, genitive " Green's Landis' Smith's Carreon's Allison's Boston's Spahn's Willie's Mickey's Milwaukee's Mays' Howsam's Mantle's Shaw's Wagner's Rickey's Shea's Palmer's Arnold's Broglio's ... NP+BEZ "noun, singular, proper + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " W.'s Ike's Mack's Jack's Kate's Katharine's Black's Arthur's Seaton's Buckhorn's Breed's Penny's Rob's Kitty's Blackwell's Myra's Wally's Lucille's Springfield's Arlene's NP+HVZ "noun, singular, proper + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " Bill's Guardino's Celie's Skolman's Crosson's Tim's Wally's NP+MD "noun, singular, proper + modal auxillary " Gyp'll John'll NPS "noun, plural, proper " Chases Aderholds Chapelles Armisteads Lockies Carbones French Marskmen Toppers Franciscans Romans Cadillacs Masons Blacks Catholics British Dixiecrats Mississippians Congresses ... NPS$ "noun, plural, proper, genitive " Republicans' Orioles' Birds' Yanks' Redbirds' Bucs' Yankees' Stevenses' Geraghtys' Burkes' Wackers' Achaeans' Dresbachs' Russians' Democrats' Gershwins' Adventists' Negroes' Catholics' ... NR "noun, singular, adverbial " Friday home Wednesday Tuesday Monday Sunday Thursday yesterday tomorrow tonight West East Saturday west left east downtown north northeast southeast northwest North South right ... NR$ "noun, singular, adverbial, genitive " Saturday's Monday's yesterday's tonight's tomorrow's Sunday's Wednesday's Friday's today's Tuesday's West's Today's South's NR+MD "noun, singular, adverbial + modal auxillary " today'll NRS "noun, plural, adverbial " Sundays Mondays Saturdays Wednesdays Souths Fridays OD "numeral, ordinal " first 13th third nineteenth 2d 61st second sixth eighth ninth twenty-first eleventh 50th eighteenth- Thirty-ninth 72nd 1/20th twentieth mid-19th thousandth 350th sixteenth 701st ... PN "pronoun, nominal " none something everything one anyone nothing nobody everybody everyone anybody anything someone no-one nothin PN$ "pronoun, nominal, genitive " one's someone's anybody's nobody's everybody's anyone's everyone's PN+BEZ "pronoun, nominal + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " nothing's everything's somebody's nobody's someone's PN+HVD "pronoun, nominal + verb ""to have"", past tense " nobody'd PN+HVZ "pronoun, nominal + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " nobody's somebody's one's PN+MD "pronoun, nominal + modal auxillary " someone'll somebody'll anybody'd PP$ "determiner, possessive " our its his their my your her out thy mine thine PP$$ "pronoun, possessive " ours mine his hers theirs yours PPL "pronoun, singular, reflexive " itself himself myself yourself herself oneself ownself PPLS "pronoun, plural, reflexive " themselves ourselves yourselves PPO "pronoun, personal, accusative " them it him me us you 'em her thee we'uns PPS "pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular " it he she thee PPS+BEZ "pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " it's he's she's PPS+HVD "pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular + verb ""to have"", past tense " she'd he'd it'd PPS+HVZ "pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " it's he's she's PPS+MD "pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular + modal auxillary " he'll she'll it'll he'd it'd she'd PPSS "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " they we I you ye thou you'uns PPSS+BEM "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to be"", present tense, 1st person singular " I'm Ahm PPSS+BER "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to be"", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " we're you're they're PPSS+BEZ "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " you's PPSS+BEZ* "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular, negated " 'tain't PPSS+HV "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to have"", uninflected present tense " I've we've they've you've PPSS+HVD "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to have"", past tense " I'd you'd we'd they'd PPSS+MD "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + modal auxillary " you'll we'll I'll we'd I'd they'll they'd you'd PPSS+VB "pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular + verb ""to verb"", uninflected present tense " y'know QL "qualifier, pre " well less very most so real as highly fundamentally even how much remarkably somewhat more completely too thus ill deeply little overly halfway almost impossibly far severly such ... QLP "qualifier, post " indeed enough still 'nuff RB adverb only often generally also nevertheless upon together back newly no likely meanwhile near then heavily there apparently yet outright fully aside consistently specifically formally ever just ... RB$ "adverb, genitive " else's RB+BEZ "adverb + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " here's there's RB+CS "adverb + conjunction, coordinating " well's soon's RBR "adverb, comparative " further earlier better later higher tougher more harder longer sooner less faster easier louder farther oftener nearer cheaper slower tighter lower worse heavier quicker ... RBR+CS "adverb, comparative + conjunction, coordinating " more'n RBT "adverb, superlative " most best highest uppermost nearest brightest hardest fastest deepest farthest loudest ... RN "adverb, nominal " here afar then RP "adverb, particle " up out off down over on in about through across after RP+IN "adverb, particle + preposition " out'n outta TO infinitival to to t' TO+VB "infinitival to + verb, infinitive " t'jawn t'lah UH interjection Hurrah bang whee hmpf ah goodbye oops oh-the-pain-of-it ha crunch say oh why see well hello lo alas tarantara rum-tum-tum gosh hell keerist Jesus Keeeerist boy c'mon 'mon goddamn bah hoo-pig damn ... VB "verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive " investigate find act follow inure achieve reduce take remedy re-set distribute realize disable feel receive continue place protect eliminate elaborate work permit run enter force ... VB+AT "verb, base: uninflected present or infinitive + article " wanna VB+IN "verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive + preposition " lookit VB+JJ "verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive + adjective " die-dead VB+PPO "verb, uninflected present tense + pronoun, personal, accusative " let's lemme gimme VB+RP "verb, imperative + adverbial particle " g'ahn c'mon VB+TO "verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive + infinitival to " wanta wanna VB+VB "verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive; hypenated pair " say-speak VBD "verb, past tense " said produced took recommended commented urged found added praised charged listed became announced brought attended wanted voted defeated received got stood shot scheduled feared promised made ... VBG "verb, present participle or gerund " modernizing improving purchasing Purchasing lacking enabling pricing keeping getting picking entering voting warning making strengthening setting neighboring attending participating moving ... VBG+TO "verb, present participle + infinitival to " gonna VBN "verb, past participle " conducted charged won received studied revised operated accepted combined experienced recommended effected granted seen protected adopted retarded notarized selected composed gotten printed ... VBN+TO "verb, past participle + infinitival to " gotta VBZ "verb, present tense, 3rd person singular " deserves believes receives takes goes expires says opposes starts permits expects thinks faces votes teaches holds calls fears spends collects backs eliminates sets flies gives seeks reads ... WDT WH-determiner which what whatever whichever whichever-the-hell WDT+BER "WH-determiner + verb ""to be"", present tense, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " what're WDT+BER+PP "WH-determiner + verb ""to be"", present, 2nd person singular or all persons plural + pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " whaddya WDT+BEZ "WH-determiner + verb ""to be"", present tense, 3rd person singular " what's WDT+DO+PPS "WH-determiner + verb ""to do"", uninflected present tense + pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular " whaddya WDT+DOD "WH-determiner + verb ""to do"", past tense " what'd WDT+HVZ "WH-determiner + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " what's WP$ "WH-pronoun, genitive " whose whosever WPO "WH-pronoun, accusative " whom that who WPS "WH-pronoun, nominative " that who whoever whosoever what whatsoever WPS+BEZ "WH-pronoun, nominative + verb ""to be"", present, 3rd person singular " that's who's WPS+HVD "WH-pronoun, nominative + verb ""to have"", past tense " who'd WPS+HVZ "WH-pronoun, nominative + verb ""to have"", present tense, 3rd person singular " who's that's WPS+MD "WH-pronoun, nominative + modal auxillary " who'll that'd who'd that'll WQL WH-qualifier however how WRB WH-adverb however when where why whereby wherever how whenever whereon wherein wherewith wheare wherefore whereof howsabout WRB+BER "WH-adverb + verb ""to be"", present, 2nd person singular or all persons plural " where're WRB+BEZ "WH-adverb + verb ""to be"", present, 3rd person singular " how's where's WRB+DO "WH-adverb + verb ""to do"", present, not 3rd person singular " howda WRB+DOD "WH-adverb + verb ""to do"", past tense " where'd how'd WRB+DOD* "WH-adverb + verb ""to do"", past tense, negated " whyn't WRB+DOZ "WH-adverb + verb ""to do"", present tense, 3rd person singular " how's WRB+IN WH-adverb + preposition why'n WRB+MD WH-adverb + modal auxillary where'd