Warlpiri/Universal Dependencies

Evaluation

Corpora

Information

	Number of sentences	Number of forms
wbp.annotated.ud.conllu	34	353
wbp.annotated2.ud.conllu	8	74

Withmorph

Results from using wbp.withmorph.udpipe on the two conllu files:

Results

	UAS	LAS
wbp.annotated.ud.conllu	93.75%	88.12%
wbp.annotated2.ud.conllu	48.72%	28.21%

Nomorph

Results from using wbp.nomorph.udpipe on the two conllu files:

Results

	UAS	LAS
wbp.annotated.ud.conllu	71.25%	65.00%
wbp.annotated2.ud.conllu	35.90%	23.08%

Dependency Relations

aux

• An auxiliary is a defined as a "function word associated with a verbal predicate that expresses categories such as tense, mood, aspect, voice or evidentiality" ([1]). In Warlpiri, auxiliaries are used in every sentence, and they carry suffixes that signify tense and the number/person of subjects and objects.
• Yani karna ngajulu ("I'm going") is glossed as:

 go + aux (present + I) + I

• Yani kanpa nyuntulu ("You're going") is glossed as:

 go + aux (present + you) + you

nsubj

• A nominal subject is a "nominal which is the syntactic subject and the proto-agent of a clause" ([2]). In Warlpiri, the subject is often but not always included as its own word -- for example, pronouns are often omitted.
• Yani karna ngajulu ("I'm going"):

 go + (present + I) + nsubj (I)

• Yani ka ("He/she/it's going"):

 go + present

obj

• An object of a verb is usually "the noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon or which undergoes a change of state or motion (the proto-patient)" ([3]). In Warlpiri, this noun is typically in the absolutive case when a transitive verb is used.
• Nyanyi kanpa wawirri ("You can see a kangaroo):

 see + (present + you) + obj (kangaroo)

• Nyanyi kangku wawirrirli nyuntulu ("The kangaroo can see you"):

 see + (present + you) + kangaroo (ergative) + obj(you)