This is the part of speech tag set used by most English corpora at GU. It is based on the original Penn Treebank tag set and is used e.g. by the TreeTagger:
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| CC | coordinating conjunction | and |
| CD | cardinal number | 1, third |
| DT | determiner | the |
| EX | existential there | there [is] |
| FW | foreign word | d'oeuvres |
| GW | goes with | for [ever] |
| IN | preposition, subordinating conjunction | in, of, like |
| IN/that | that as subordinator | that |
| JJ | adjective | green |
| JJR | adjective, comparative | greener |
| JJS | adjective, superlative | greenest |
| LS | list marker | 1) |
| MD | modal | could, will |
| NN | noun, singular or mass | table |
| NNS | noun plural | tables |
| NP | proper noun, singular | John |
| NPS | proper noun, plural | Americans |
| PDT | predeterminer | both [the boys] |
| POS | possessive ending | [friend]'s |
| PP | personal pronoun | I, he, it |
| PP$ | possessive pronoun | my, his |
| RB | adverb | however, usually, naturally, here, good |
| RBR | adverb, comparative | better |
| RBS | adverb, superlative | best |
| RP | particle | [give] up |
| SENT | Sentence final punctuation | . ! ? |
| SYM | Symbol | / = * |
| TO | infinitive or prepositon 'to' | to |
| UH | interjection | hey, huh, uh |
| VB | verb be, base form | be |
| VBD | verb be, past tense | was, were |
| VBG | verb be, gerund/present participle | being |
| VBN | verb be, past participle | been |
| VBP | verb be, sing. present, non-3rd | am, are |
| VBZ | verb be, 3rd person sing. present | is |
| VH | verb have, base form | have |
| VHD | verb have, past tense | had |
| VHG | verb have, gerund/present participle | having |
| VHN | verb have, past participle | had |
| VHP | verb have, sing. present, non-3d | have |
| VHZ | verb have, 3rd person sing. present | has |
| VV | verb, base form | take |
| VVD | verb, past tense | took |
| VVG | verb, gerund/present participle | taking |
| VVN | verb, past participle | taken |
| VVP | verb, sing. present, non-3d | take |
| VVZ | verb, 3rd person sing. present | takes |
| WDT | wh-determiner | which |
| WP | wh-pronoun | who, what |
| WP$ | possessive wh-pronoun | whose |
| WRB | wh-abverb | where, when |
| `` | Opening quotation marks | ' " |
| " | Closing quotation marks | ' " |
| ( | Opening brackets | ( { |
| ) | Closing brackets | ) } |
| , | Comma | , |
| $ | Currency symbols | $ € £ |
| : | Other punctuation | - ; : -- ... |
| HYPH | Word-internal hyphen | - |