List of the phrasal categories used in the NEGRA project

AA superlative phrase with "am"

Karl lachte [am lautesten]

der [AP: [AA: am lautesten] lachende] Mann

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AP adjective phrase

An adjective (ADJA, ADJD, MTA, also CARD) + its dependents.

Examples:

das [vom Repertoir her unerschrockene] Ensemble

die [an sich netten] Melodien

Peter ist [an sich ganz nett]

also:

• participial phrases:
  
  Example:
  
  der [nach Hamburg fahrende] Mann
  
• modified determiners and numbers:
  
  Examples:
  
  [gar keine] Freude
  
  [ca. 10] Jugendliche
  
  [AP: rund [NM: 10 000]] Jahre

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AVP adverbial phrase

phrase headed by an adverb:

Examples:

[AVP: gar nicht]

[AVP: so ] wichtig

[AVP: dass...]

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CAC coordinated adpositions (prepositions or postpositions, APPR, APZR, APPO)

Example:

die Zuege [von und nach] Hamburg

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CAP coordinated adjektive phrase

The conjuncts are APs, CAPs and adjectives (ADJA, ADJD, CARD).

Example:

die [CAP: alten und neuen] Ideen

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CAVP coordinated adverbial phrase

Coordination of AVPs, CAVPs and adverbs (ADV).

Examples:

[CAVP: [ADV: nur heute] oder nie]

[CAVP: heute und morgen]

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CCP coordinated complementiser

Example:

[ob und wann] er kommt

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CH chunk

CNP coordinated noun phrase

Possible conjuncts: NPs, NNs, NEs, MPNs.

Examples:

[CNP: [NP: ein Mann] und [NP: eine Frau]]

[CNP: Peter und [NP: sein Onkel]]

[NP: die [CNP: Jungen und Maedchen]]

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CO coordination

coordination of different categories (S+NP, NP+PP, etc.).

Examples:

[CO: [NP: jeden Tag] oder [PP: zumindest am kommenden Freitag]]

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CPP coordinated adpositional phrase

Coordination of PPs and prepositional adverbs (PP+PP, PP+PROAV,...)

Examples:

[CPP: [in der Stadt] und [auf dem Lande]]

[CPP: [fuer die Reformen] oder dagegen]

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CS coordinated sentence

Coordination of sentences (or sentence chunks):

Examples:

[CS: [S: Peter kommt] und [S: Paul geht]]

[CS: [S: Er kam], sah und siegte]

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CVP coordinated verb phrase (non-finite)

Coordination of (possibly incomplete) non-finite VPs:

Examples:

Er wollte [CVP: [VP: Peter besuchen] und [VP: Hans anrufen]]

Er wollte [CVP: [VP: uns besuchen] oder anrufen]

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CVZ coordinated zu-marked infinitive

Examples:

[[zu vergessen] und [zu vergeben]]

[einzusteigen und [zu bleiben]]

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DL discourse level constituent

A discourse unit without explicit syntactic dependencies between its components:

Example:

[ ["Lass mich in Ruhe!"] [aergerte sich Peter] ]

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ISU idiosyncratic unit

MPN multi-word proper noun

Name consisting of several words (1st name+family name, etc.).

Examples:

[Karl Schulz]

[Bad Muenstereifel]

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MTA multi-token adjective

Adjective related to a multi-token proper noun:

Example:

die [MTA: Bad Godesberger] Buerger

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NM multi-token number

Example:

[NP: [NM: eine Million] Menschen]

[NP: [NM: 10 000] Menschen]

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NP noun phrase

Head noun + its modifiers, complements, determiners.

Example:

[NP: der Mann]

[NP: der alte Mann]

[NP: der Mann [PP: aus Hamburg]]

PP adpositional phrase

Basically, an NP containing a pre- post- or circumposition.
Note that there is no embedded NP in the P, so: [PP: in der Stadt], and NOT [PP: in [NP: der Stadt]]

Example:

[PP: in der Stadt]

[PP: meiner Meinung nach]

[PP: um die Stadt herum]

PP is also the category of correlative constructions of the form: PROAV + VP/S

[PP: dagegen, [dass er kommt]]

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QL quasi-language

S sentence

In most cases, a finite verb + its dependents:

Example:

Hans liebt Maria.

The verb can be missing in elliptic constructions:

Example:

[S: Gut, [S: dass du kommst]]

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VP verb phrase (non-finite)

Basically, a non-finite verb form (past participle, infinitive) with its dependents:

Peter will [VP: uns besuchen]

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VZ zu-marked infinitive

(only if "zu" is written as a separate word)

Example:

Er versucht, uns [VZ: zu taeuschen]

But:

Er versucht, wegzufahren=PROAV