MULTEXT-East Morphosyntactic Specifications, Version 4

3.1.3. English Verb

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Table 22. English Specification for Verb
P Attribute (en) Value (en) Code (en)
0 CATEGORY Verb V
1 Type main m
auxiliary a
modal o
base b
2 VForm indicative i
conditional c
infinitive n
participle p
3 Tense present p
past s
4 Person first 1
second 2
third 3
5 Number singular s
plural p
3.1.3.1. Notes

These tags do not attempt to represent distinctions found in the various compound verb-forms. These are composed of a sequence of auxiliary and non-finite verb as follows:

future will/shall + base
conditional would/should + base
passive be + past participle
perfect have + past participle
past perfect have-past + past participle
present continuous be + present participle
infinitive to + base

So there is no "aspect" attribute or "future" value, for example.

3.1.3.2. MSD Index

This index gives the complete list of morphosyntactic descriptions (MSDs) and their features. In the table below, the first column gives the MSD, the second its expansion into a feature-structure, the third gives the number of entries in the lexicon (71,784 entries), and the fourth gives some examples as word-form/lemma. The list was extracted form the English MULTEXT-East lexicon.

Table 24. MSDs (30)
MSD (en) Features (en) Lexical entries Examples of usage
Vmip Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=present 3 nose, lacquered/lacquer, daren't/dare+not
Vmip-p Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=present Number=plural 4105 zoom, zip, zigzag, yodel, yield, yelp, yell, yellow, yearn
Vmip1s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=first Number=singular 4104 zoom, zip, zigzag, yodel, yield, yelp, yell, yellow, yearn
Vmip2s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=second Number=singular 4105 zoom, zip, zigzag, yodel, yield, yelp, yell, yellow, yearn
Vmip3s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=third Number=singular 4103 zooms/zoom, zips/zip, zigzags/zigzag, yodels/yodel, yields/yield
Vmis Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=past 4159 zoomed/zoom, zipped/zip, zigzagged/zigzag, yodelled/yodel, yielded/yield
Vmis-p Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=past Number=plural 2 weren't/be+not, were/be
Vmis1s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=first Number=singular 3 wass/be, wasn't/be+not, was/be
Vmis2s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=second Number=singular 2 weren't/be+not, were/be
Vmis3s Verb Type=main VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=third Number=singular 3 wass/be, wasn't/be+not, was/be
Vmcs Verb Type=main VForm=conditional Tense=past 1 weren't/be+not
Vmn Verb Type=main VForm=infinitive 4105 zoom, zip, zigzag, yodel, yield, yelp, yell, yellow, yearn
Vmnp Verb Type=main VForm=infinitive Tense=present 1 be
Vmpp Verb Type=main VForm=participle Tense=present 4118 zooming/zoom, zipping/zip, zigzagging/zigzag, yodelling/yodel
Vmps Verb Type=main VForm=participle Tense=past 4168 zoomed/zoom, zipped/zip, zigzagged/zigzag, yodelled/yodel, yielded/yield
Vaip Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=present 3 oughter/have, 'A/have, 'a/have
Vaip-p Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=present Number=plural 14 've/have, 're/be, haven't/have+not, have, dont/do, don't/do+not
Vaip1s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=first Number=singular 13 've/have, 'm/be, haven't/have+not, have, dont/do, don't/do+not
Vaip2s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=second Number=singular 13 're/be, haven't/have+not, have, dont/do, don't/do+not, dono, 'Ave/have
Vaip3s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=present Person=third Number=singular 12 's/have, 's/be, isn't/be+not, is/be, hasn't/have+not, has/have
Vais Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=past 7 hadn't/have+not, had/have, didnt/do+not, didn't/do+not, did/do
Vais-p Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=past Number=plural 2 weren't/be+not, were/be
Vais1s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=first Number=singular 3 wass/be, wasn't/be+not, was/be
Vais2s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=second Number=singular 2 weren't/be+not, were/be
Vais3s Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=indicative Tense=past Person=third Number=singular 3 wass/be, wasn't/be+not, was/be
Vacs Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=conditional Tense=past 1 were/be
Van Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=infinitive 8 have, do, d', be, 'Ave, 'ave, 'A, 'a
Vapp Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=participle Tense=present 3 having/have, doing/do, being/be
Vaps Verb Type=auxiliary VForm=participle Tense=past 2 done/do, been/be
Voip Verb Type=modal VForm=indicative Tense=present 22 would, wouldn't/would+not, won't/will+not, will, should, shouldn't/should+not

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