Sydney-Informatics-Hub/spacy-explain

This is an explainer notebook for SpaCy Part-of-Speech, Part-of-Speech (fine-grained), and Dependency tags

SpaCy Explainer

This is an explainer notebook for SpaCy Part-of-Speech, Part-of-Speech (fine-grained), and Dependency tags. When SpaCy processes text, it applies a tokenization process first. From there, each token is assigned various tags to categorise it. Below is a list of identifiers for each tag.

Identifiers

Part-of-Speech tags (simple)

Identifier	Description
ADJ	adjective
ADP	adposition
ADV	adverb
AUX	auxiliary
CCONJ	coordinating conjunction
DET	determiner
INTJ	interjection
NOUN	noun
NUM	numeral
PART	particle
PRON	pronoun
PROPN	proper noun
PUNCT	punctuation
SCONJ	subordinating conjunction
SYM	symbol
VERB	verb
X	other

Part-of-Speech tags (fine-grained)

Identifier	Description
$	symbol, currency
''	closing quotation mark
,	punctuation mark, comma
-LRB-	left round bracket
-RRB-	right round bracket
.	punctuation mark, sentence closer
:	punctuation mark, colon or ellipsis
ADD	email
AFX	affix
CC	conjunction, coordinating
CD	cardinal number
DT	determiner
EX	existential there
FW	foreign word
HYPH	punctuation mark, hyphen
IN	conjunction, subordinating or preposition
JJ	adjective (English), other noun-modifier (Chinese)
JJR	adjective, comparative
JJS	adjective, superlative
LS	list item marker
MD	verb, modal auxiliary
NFP	superfluous punctuation
NN	noun, singular or mass
NNP	noun, proper singular
NNPS	noun, proper plural
NNS	noun, plural
PDT	predeterminer
POS	possessive ending
PRP	pronoun, personal
PRP$	pronoun, possessive
RB	adverb
RBR	adverb, comparative
RBS	adverb, superlative
RP	adverb, particle
SYM	symbol
TO	infinitival "to"
UH	interjection
VB	verb, base form
VBD	verb, past tense
VBG	verb, gerund or present participle
VBN	verb, past participle
VBP	verb, non-3rd person singular present
VBZ	verb, 3rd person singular present
WDT	wh-determiner
WP	wh-pronoun, personal
WP$	wh-pronoun, possessive
WRB	wh-adverb
XX	unknown
_SP	whitespace
``	opening quotation mark

Dependency tags

Identifier	Description
acl	clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause)
acomp	adjectival complement
advcl	adverbial clause modifier
advmod	adverbial modifier
agent	agent
amod	adjectival modifier
appos	appositional modifier
attr	attribute
aux	auxiliary
auxpass	auxiliary (passive)
case	case marking
cc	coordinating conjunction
ccomp	clausal complement
compound	compound
conj	conjunct
csubj	clausal subject
csubjpass	clausal subject (passive)
dative	dative
dep	unclassified dependent
det	determiner
dobj	direct object
expl	expletive
intj	interjection
mark	marker
meta	meta modifier
neg	negation modifier
nmod	modifier of nominal
npadvmod	noun phrase as adverbial modifier
nsubj	nominal subject
nsubjpass	nominal subject (passive)
nummod	numeric modifier
oprd	object predicate
parataxis	parataxis
pcomp	complement of preposition
pobj	object of preposition
poss	possession modifier
preconj	pre-correlative conjunction
predet	None
prep	prepositional modifier
prt	particle
punct	punctuation
quantmod	modifier of quantifier
relcl	relative clause modifier
xcomp	open clausal complement