Part of Speech and Phrase Chunker Annotations
This topic lists the part of speech and phrase chunker (also known as chunking or simple parsing) annotations that may appear on the Text Graph.
Phrase chunking is disabled by default and needs to be enabled in Document Processing for the annotations to appear on the Text Graph.

Part of speech annotations
The following annotations can be targeted in an Entity Extraction Script by adding POS: to the front of the annotation. For example, to target the CC part of speech in a text, you would type POS:CC in the Entity Extraction Script.
Annotation |
Description |
Annotation |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
CC |
Coordinating conjunction |
PUNC |
Punctuation marks |
CD |
Cardinal number |
RB |
Adverb |
DT |
Determiner |
RBR |
Adverb, comparative |
EX |
Existential there |
RBS |
Adverb, superlative |
FW |
Foreign word |
RP |
Particle |
IN |
Preposition or subordinating conjunction |
SYM |
Symbol |
JJ |
Adjective |
TO |
to |
JJR |
Adjective, comparative |
UH |
Interjection |
JJS |
Adjective, superlative |
VB |
Verb, base form |
LS |
List item marker |
VBD |
Verb, past tense |
MD |
Modal |
VBG |
Verb, gerund or present participle |
NN |
Noun, singular or mass |
VBN |
Verb, past participle |
NNS |
Noun, plural |
VBP |
Verb, non-3rd person singular present |
NNP |
Proper noun, singular |
VBZ |
Verb, 3rd person singular present |
NNPS |
Proper noun, plural |
WDT |
Wh-determiner |
PDT |
Predeterminer |
WP |
Wh-pronoun |
POS |
Possessive ending |
WP$ |
Possessive wh-pronoun (prolog version WP-S) |
PRP |
Personal pronoun |
WRB |
Wh-adverb |
PRP$ |
Possessive pronoun (prolog version PRP-S) |
|

Phrase chunker annotations
When enabled, the following annotations can be targeted in an Entity Extraction Script by adding chunk: to the front of the annotation. For example, to target the SBAR chunk of a text, you would type chunk:SBAR in the Entity Extraction Script.
Annotation |
Description |
---|---|
SBAR |
Clause introduced by a (possibly empty) subordinating conjunction. |
ADJO |
Adjective Phrase. |
ADVP |
Adverb Phrase. |
CONJP |
Conjunction Phrase. |
INTJ |
Interjection. Corresponds approximately to the part-of-speech tag UH. |
LST |
List marker. Includes surrounding punctuation. |
NP |
Noun Phrase. |
PP |
Prepositional Phrase. |
PRT |
Particle. Category for words that should be tagged RP. |
UCP |
Unlike Coordinated Phrase. |
VP |
Verb Phrase. |