List of tags
(Source: the Brown Corpus manual.)
| Tag | Description | Examples |
| . | sentence closer | . ; ? ! |
| ( | left paren | |
| ) | right paren | |
| * | not, n't | |
| -- | dash | |
| , | comma | |
| : | colon | |
| ABL | pre-qualifier | quite, rather |
| ABN | pre-quantifier | half, all |
| ABX | pre-quantifier | both |
| AP | post-determiner | many, several, next |
| AT | article | a, the, no |
| BE | be | |
| BED | were | |
| BEDZ | was | |
| BEG | being | |
| BEM | am | |
| BEN | been | |
| BER | are, art | |
| BEZ | is | |
| CC | coordinating conjunction | and, or |
| CD | cardinal numeral | one, two, 2 |
| CS | subordinating conjunction | if, although |
| DO | do | |
| DOD | did | |
| DOZ | does | |
| DT | singular determiner | this, that |
| DTI | singular or plural determiner/quantifier | some, any |
| DTS | plural determiner | these, those |
| DTX | determiner/double conjunction | either |
| EX | existentil there | |
| FW | foreign word (hyphenated before regular tag) | |
| HL | word occurring in headline (hyphenated after regular tag) | |
| HV | have | |
| HVD | had (past tense) | |
| HVG | having | |
| HVN | had (past participle) | |
| HVZ | has | |
| IN | preposition | |
| JJ | adjective | |
| JJR | comparative adjective | |
| JJS | semantically superlative adjective | chief, top |
| JJT | morphologically superlative adjective | biggest |
| MD | modal auxiliary | can, should, will |
| NC | cited word (hyphenated after regular tag) | |
| NN | singular or mass noun | |
| NN$ | possessive singular noun | |
| NNS | plural noun | |
| NNS$ | possessive plural noun | |
| NP | proper noun or part of name phrase | |
| NP$ | possessive proper noun | |
| NPS | plural proper noun | |
| NPS$ | possessive plural proper noun | |
| NR | adverbial noun | home, today, west |
| NRS | plural adverbial noun |
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| OD | ordinal numeral | first, 2nd |
| PN | nominal pronoun | everybody, nothing |
| PN$ | possessive nominal pronoun | |
| PP$ | possessive personal pronoun | my, our |
| PP$$ | second (nominal) possessive pronoun | mine, ours |
| PPL | singular reflexive/intensive personal pronoun | myself |
| PPLS | plural reflexive/intensive personal pronoun | ourselves |
| PPO | objective personal pronoun | me, him, it, them |
| PPS | 3rd. singular nominative pronoun | he, she, it, one |
| PPSS | other nominative personal pronoun | I, we, they, you |
| QL | qualifier | very, fairly |
| QLP | post-qualifier | enough, indeed |
| RB | adverb | |
| RBR | comparative adverb | |
| RBT | superlative adverb | |
| RN | nominal adverb |
here, then, indoors |
| RP | adverb/particle | about, off, up |
| TL | word occurring in title (hyphenated after | |
| | regular tag) | |
| TO | infinitive marker to | |
| UH | interjection, exclamation | |
| VB | verb, base form | |
| VBD | verb, past tense | |
| VBG | verb, present participle/gerund | |
| VBN | verb, past participle | |
| VBZ | verb, 3rd. singular present | |
| WDT | wh- determiner | what, which |
| WP$ | possessive wh- pronoun | whose |
| WPO | objective wh- pronoun | whom, which, that |
| WPS | nominative wh- pronoun | who, which, that |
| WQL | wh- qualifier | how |
| WRB | wh- adverb | how, where, when |
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