UD_Ruuli-RDT
Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_Ruuli-RDT/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_Ruuli-RDT; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| UD name | UD_Ruuli-RDT |
| Language | Ruuli (ruc) |
| Family | Niger-Congo |
| Treebank code | ruc_rdt |
| UD page | universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ruc rdt/index.html |
| License | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, grammar-examples, nonfiction, spoken |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.18 |
| Authors | Kira Tulchynska; Anna Veselovsky; Alena Witzlack-Makarevich |
| Contact | kira.tulchynska@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Development | in the UD repo (here) |
Annotation layers
| Layer | Origin |
|---|---|
| Lemmas | converted from manual |
| UPOS | converted from manual |
| XPOS | converted from manual |
| Features | converted from manual |
| 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 | 1 234 | 5 860 | 6 301 | 425 | 0 |
| total | 1 234 | 5 860 | 6 301 | 425 | 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
UD_Ruuli-RDT is a Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank for the Ruruuli-Lunyala (Ruuli) language. The annotation was converted from interlinear glossed text and manually annotated for syntactic relations. The treebank includes texts from various sources: conversations, oral folktales, biographic monologue, movie subtitles, grammar examples, and factual prose. The treebank contains approximately 6,000 tokens.
Introduction
The UD_Ruuli-RDT treebank consists of texts recorded in Ruuli or translated into it by native speakers, and subsequently glossed and annotated. The included texts are:
- spokenBio_Nakasongola1 (795 words): Biographic monologue on childhood years, schooling, work, and other life experiences
- spokenConv_Nakasongola1b (1223 words): Conversation between two speakers, a male and a female, about taking care of their elderly parents
- spokenConv_Nakasongola2 (1544 words): Conversation between two females about socio-economic issues
- spokenTale_Gweero (595 words): A traditional oral folktale about the cow who got in trouble with the lion and the hare who helped the cow
- spokenTale_Sokoso (373 words): A traditional oral folktale about a woman who mistreated her mother-in-law
- film_Inception (469 words): An excerpt from the translated subtitles for the film Inception (2010)
- grammar_Syntax (936 words): Language examples from A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala (Namyalo et al. 2021)
- nonfiction_Aniinire (366 words): An excerpt from factual prose on the history and traditions of the language speakers
All sentences were converted from interlinear glossed text into CoNLL-U format using a custom conversion script. The syntactic relations were subsequently manually annotated following the UD framework.
Sentences from written texts and conversations were shuffled to anonymize the data.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/ruc/rdt/