Hindi PropBank Annotation Guidelines December ... - Verbs Index

56. [ ARGM-DIS he bhagwaan], mujhe maafii do.
Oh God, I-dat forgiveness give.Imp.
‘Oh God, forgive me’
4.13. ARGM_ADV (Adverbials)
These are used for syntactic elements which clearly modify the event structure of the
verb in question, but which do not fall under any of the headings above.
i. Temporally related (modifiers of events): mohan kii pratiiskhaa mein siitaa wahiin
khaRii rahii ‘Sita remained standing there, in anticipation of Mohan’
ii. Intensional (modifiers of propositions): shaayad ‘probably, possibly’
iii. Focus-sensitive: sirf/keval ‘only’, bhii ‘also, even’
iv. Sentential (evaluative, attitudinal, viewpoint, performatives): soubhaagya se
‘fortunately’,
v. asal mein ‘in actuality’, kaanoon ke anusaar ‘legally’, ke baavjuud ‘despite’, agar ‘if’,
etc.
vi. Conditional clauses like agar-to, where the dependent clause gets the Adv label
As opposed to ArgM-MNR, which modifies the verb, ARGM-ADVs usually modify the
entire sentence.
57. [ ARGM-ADV shaayad] siitaa khaanaa khaayegii
maybe Sita food will eat
‘Maybe Sita will eat food’
58. [ ARGM-DIS keval] do laRkO ne saaraa kaam kiyaa.
Only two boys erg all work did
‘Only two boys did all the work’
4.14 ARGM_MOD (modals)
Modal constructions in Hindi convey notions such as ability, desire, obligation,
permission, etc. In Pbank, we will annotate the following cases using the ARGM-Mod
label.
59. mohan kaam kar [ ARGM-MOD sakegaa].
Mohan work do able.fut
‘Mohan will be able to do the work’
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