Syntactic Tags

@+FAUXV

Finite Auxiliary Predicator (He can read.)

@-FAUXV

Nonfinite Auxiliary Predicator (She may have read.)

@+FMAINV

Finite Main Predicator (He reads.)

@-FMAINV

Nonfinite Main Predicator (She has read.)

@NPHR

Stray NP (Volume I: Syntax)

@SUBJ

Subject (He reads.)

@F-SUBJ

Formal Subject (There was some argument about that. It is raining.)

@OBJ

Object (She read a book.)

@I-OBJ

Indirect Object (He gave Mary a book.)

@PCOMPL-S

Subject Complement (He is a fool.)

@PCOMPL-O

Object Complement (I consider him a fool.)

@ADVL

Adverbial (She came home late. She is in the car.)

@APP

Apposition (Helsinki, the capital of Finland)

@N

Title (King George and Mr. Smith)

@DN>

Determiner (He read the book.)

@NN>

Premodifying Noun (The car park was full.)

@AN>

Premodifying Adjective (The blue car is mine.)

@QN>

Premodifying Quantifier (He had two sandwiches and some coffee.)

@GN>

Premodifying Genitive (My car and Bill's bike are blue.)

@AD-A>

Premodifying Ad-Adjective (She is very intelligent.)

@<NOM-OF

Postmodifying of (Five of you will pass.)

@<NOM-FMAINV

Postmodifying Nonfinite Verb (He has the licence to kill. John is easy to please. The man drinking coffee is my uncle.)

@<AD-A

Postmodifying Ad-Adjective (This is good enough.)

@<NOM

Other Postmodifier (The man with glasses is my uncle. He is the president elect. The man in the moon fell down too soon.)

@INFMARK>

Infinitive Marker (John wants to read.)

@<P-FMAINV

Nonfinite Verb as Complement of Preposition (This is a brush for cleaning.)

@<P

Other Complement of Preposition (He is in the car.)

@CC

Coordinator (John and Bill are friends.)

@CS

Subordinator (If John is there, we shall go, too.)

@O-ADVL

Object Adverbial (He ran two miles.)

@NEG

Negative Particle (It is not funny.)

@DUMMY

A word without a syntactic function, e.g. an interjection. (Oh yes.)