Complete listing of part-of-speech tags

 Unlike in the PPCME1, in the PPCME2, the internal structure of constituents is indicated down to the word level (part of speech). This section outlines the part-of-speech tags used. The examples are given in the style of the part-of-speech tagged texts. The POS tags are also included in the parsed files, however, as the first set of labelled parens surrounding a word.
The verb BE 
BE      infinitive
BEI     imperative
BEP     present (including present subjunctive)
BED     past (including past subjunctive)
BAG     present participle
BEN     perfect participle
The verb HAVE 
HV      infinitive 
HVI     imperative
HVP     present (including present subjunctive)
HVD     past (including past subjunctive)
HAG     present participle
HVN     perfect participle
HAN     passive participle (verbal or adjectival)
The verb DO 
DO      infinitive
DOI     imperative
DOP     present (including present subjunctive)
DOD     past (including past subjunctive)
DAG     present participle
DON     perfect participle
DAN     passive participle (verbal or adjectival)
All other verbs 
VB      infinitive
VBI     imperative
VBP     present (including present subjunctive)
VBD     past (including past subjunctive)
VAG     present participle
VBN     perfect participle
VAN     passive participle (verbal or adjectival)
Modals/auxiliaries 
MD      Modal verb
MD0     Untensed modal verb
TO      Infinitival TO and AT
FOR     Infinitival FOR in FOR TO
FOR+TO  Cliticized FORTO
Nominals 
N       Common noun, singular or mass
N$      Possessive noun
NS      Common noun, plural
NS$     Possessive plural noun
NPR     Proper noun, singular
NPR$    Possessive proper noun
NPRS    Proper noun, plural
NPRS$   Possessive plural proper noun
$       Possessive ending 'S or HIS used as possessive clitic
PRO     Personal pronoun
PRO$    Possessive pronoun
EX      Existential THERE
Adjectives 
ADJ     Adjective
ADJR    Adjective, comparative
ADJS    Adjective, superlative
Adverbs 
ADV     Adverb
ADVR    Adverb, comparative
ADVS    Adverb, superlative
Quantifiers 
Q       Quantifier
QR      Quantifier, comparative (MORE, LESS, FEWER)
QS      Quantifier, superlative (MOST, LEAST, FEWEST)
Wh-words 
WD      Wh-determiner
WPRO    Wh-pronoun
WPRO$   Possessive wh-pronoun
WADV    Wh-adverb
WQ      WHETHER
Miscellaneous 
CONJ    Coordinating conjunction
NUM     Cardinal number
C       Complementizer
D       Determiner
P       Preposition or subordinating conjunction 
NEG     Negation
RP      Adverbial particle
FP      Focus particle
FW      Foreign word
INTJ    Interjection
ALSO    The words ALSO (except when = SO, AS or EVEN) and EKE 
ELSE    The word ELSE (in the collocation OR ELSE)
ONE     The word ONE (except as focus particle)
OTHER   the word OTHER (except as conjunction)
OTHER$  Possessive nominal singular use of OTHER
OTHERS  Plural nominal use of OTHER
OTHERS$ Possessive nominal plural use of OTHER
SUCH    The word SUCH
WARD    The morpheme WARD
Punctuation 
.       Final punctuation (end of token) in POS files
E_S     Final punctuation in parsed files
,       Non-final punctuation
"       Double quotation marks
'       Single quotation marks
LB      Line break
Non-linguistic tags 
CODE    Indicates non-text material
ID      The token identifier