UD_Coptic-Scriptorium
Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_Coptic-Scriptorium/README.md; size is counted by streaming the .conllu files and checked against the release stats.xml. Generated by tools/treebanks build; do not edit by hand. Papers: Papers: UD_Coptic-Scriptorium; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| UD name | UD_Coptic-Scriptorium |
| Language | Coptic (cop) |
| Family | Afro-Asiatic |
| Treebank code | cop_scriptorium |
| UD page | universaldependencies.org/treebanks/cop scriptorium/index.html |
| License | CC BY 4.0 |
| Genres | bible, fiction, nonfiction |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v1.4 |
| Authors | Mitchell Abrams; Elizabeth Davidson; Amir Zeldes |
| Contact | amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |
| Documentation status | complete |
| Data source | manual |
Annotation layers
| Layer | Origin |
|---|---|
| Lemmas | manual native |
| UPOS | converted from manual |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | automatic |
| Relations | manual native |
UD scale: manual native — annotated by hand directly in UD; converted from manual — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; converted with corrections — converted and partly corrected by hand; automatic with corrections — automatic, with partial manual corrections; automatic — automatic; not available — the layer is absent.
Size
| Split | Sentences | Tokens | Words | Multiword tokens | Empty nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| train | 1 467 | 17 684 | 37 639 | 11 070 | 0 |
| dev | 380 | 5 137 | 10 963 | 3 247 | 0 |
| test | 405 | 4 872 | 10 372 | 3 102 | 0 |
| total | 2 252 | 27 693 | 58 974 | 17 419 | 0 |
Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish vámonos is one), words are syntactic words (vamos + nos); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the N.M nodes of the enhanced graph.
Summary
UD Coptic contains manually annotated Sahidic Coptic texts, including Biblical texts, sermons, letters, and hagiography.
Introduction
The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank is a manually annotated corpus of Sahidic Coptic texts, currently containing excerpts from the Sahidic New Testament Gospel of Mark and 1 Corinthians, the Old Testament Book of Ruth, Works by Archmandrite Shenoute of Atripe, the Letters of Besa, lives of Sts. Cyrus, Onnophrius and John the Kalybites, Epistle of Pseudo-Ephrem, homilies and discourses by Proclus, Pseudo-Athanasius and Pseudo-Flavianus, the Dormition of John the Apostle and short stories from the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers). Detailed information about the treebank is available here:
copticscriptorium.org/treebank.html
The data was digitized or previously available in digital format, and annotated manually for part of speech in the project Coptic Scriptorium. For individual credit and further information see:
Coptic POS tags come from the Coptic Scriptorium tag set, which is available from the project and treebank websites.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/cop/scriptorium/