Use the tables below for an idea of the kinds of search criteria already avaliable. Note that for the moment the functions whose names start with /ass require exactly one space in the end of their regular expression argument. We hope to be able to improve usability of this interface soon.
| noun phrase containing the word coisa | /np[word,coisa] |
| prepositional phrase containing a word assigned the morphological features F_P (feminine plural) | /pp[morf,F_P] |
| noun phrase with adjectival head | /npn[classe,H:adj] |
| noun phrase with headword casa | /npn[word,casa] |
| prepositional phrases with less than four words | /principio_de[pp] []{2,4} /fim_de[pp] |
| noun phrases with "signature" "art n adj" | /ass_np('art n adj') |
| noun phrases containing two adjacent prepositional phrases | /ass_np('.*pp pp.*') |
| noun phrase followed by a prepositional phrase | /np_pp() |
| noun phrase containing a prepositional phrase | /ass_np('.*pp.*') | finite clause containing a prepositional phrase as object | /ass_forfun_fcl('.* ACC:pp.*') |
| finite clause having as signature 'np v np pp' | /ass_fcl['np v-fin np pp'] |
| prepositional phrase having as mixed signature ''.*:advp H:prp .*' | /ass_forfun_pp['.*:advp H:prp .*'] |
| prepositional phrases with an argument role | /fun_pp('PIV') |
| noun phrases with an adverbial role | /fun_np('ADVL') |
| noun phrases with "function signature" "H N<" (head followed by one postmodifier) |
/ass_fun_np('H N<') |
| finite clauses with indirect object followed by direct object | /ass_fun_icl('.* PIV ACC .*') |
| adverbs modifying prepositional phrases | /pp[classe,">P:adv"] |
| adverbs as constituents of prepositional phrases | /pp[classe,"P<:adv"] |
| adverbs contained in prepositional phrases | /pp[classe,".*:adv"] |
| pre-modifying adjectives in noun phrases | /np[classe,">N:adj"] |
| post-modifying adjectives in noun phrases | /np[classe,"N<:adj"] |
| words occurring last in a prepositional phrase | [] /fim_de[pp] | words other than articles appearing at the beginning of noun phrases | /principio_de[np] [classe != ".*:art"] |
For example, you can look for what kinds of phrasal subjects (in terms of their constituents) there is in the treebank, by selecting "phrase distribution" and input [funcao="SUBJ"] in the query window. You would get the size distribution if you had chosen size instead.
You may, on the other hand, look at what are the functions of PPs in the corpus, by selecting the function distribution, and simply input "pp" in the query window. Or you may simply look at the actual words in the PP's, for which you would choose text distribution.
| clauses | 21,931 |
| finite | 15,566 |
| non-finite | 5,602 |
| averbal | 763 |
| noun phrases | 43,096 |
| prepositional phrases | 32,210 |
| d adjectival phrases | 1,780 |
| adverbial phrases | 833 |
| conjuncts | 5,448 |
| trees | 9,431 |
| sentences with more than one tree | 64 |
| sentences with exactly two trees | 61 |
| sentences with exactly three trees | 2 |