UD_Ottoman_Turkish-TueCL
Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_Ottoman_Turkish-TueCL/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_Ottoman_Turkish-TueCL; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| UD name | UD_Ottoman_Turkish-TueCL |
| Language | Ottoman Turkish (ota) |
| Family | Turkic |
| Treebank code | ota_tuecl |
| UD page | universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ota tuecl/index.html |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | grammar-examples |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | cairo tuecl |
| In UD since | UD v2.18 |
| Authors | Enes Yılandiloğlu |
| Contact | enes.yilandiloglu@helsinki.fi |
| Development | in the UD repo (here) |
Annotation layers
| Layer | Origin |
|---|---|
| Lemmas | manual native |
| UPOS | manual native |
| XPOS | not available |
| Features | manual native |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| test | 148 | 908 | 929 | 20 | 0 |
| total | 148 | 908 | 929 | 20 | 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. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.
Summary
The Ottoman Turkish-TueCL treebank is part of a parallel Universal Dependencies corpus containing 148 sentences across five Turkic languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, and Ottoman Turkish), designed to facilitate cross-linguistic research on these related languages.
Introduction
The Ottoman Turkish-TueCL treebank consists of 148 carefully selected sentences (929 tokens) compiled from multiple sources, including the Cairo corpus (20 sentences), the UDTW23 corpus (20 sentences), and 97 additional examples illustrating specific grammatical constructions of interest. It serves as the source treebank for a parallel corpus spanning four Turkic languages from distinct branches of the family: Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Azerbaijani (Oghuz), Kyrgyz (Kipchak), and Uzbek (Karluk).
The treebank includes various syntactic phenomena relevant to Turkic languages, such as pro-drop constructions, auxiliary chains, postverbal structures, and non-canonical word orders. Each sentence has been manually annotated following UD guidelines, with particular attention to morphosyntactic features that highlight both shared typological characteristics and language-specific traits. English translations are provided as metadata to support comparative research.
This resource is significant as it represents the first fully aligned parallel UD treebanks for these Turkic languages, enabling systematic cross-linguistic comparisons previously hindered by the lack of parallel resources. The treebank supports research in comparative Turkic syntax, cross-lingual parsing, and language education.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/ota/tuecl/