Depends on What the French Say - Spoken Corpus Annotation with and beyond Syntactic Functions

We present a syntactic annotation scheme for spoken French that is currently used in the Rhapsodie project. This annotation is dependency-based and includes coordination and disfluency as analogously encoded types of paradigmatic phenomena. Furthermore, we attempt a thorough definition of the discourse units required by the systematic annotation of other phenomena beyond usual sentence boundaries, which are typical for spoken language. This includes so called “macrosyntactic” phenomena such as dislocation, parataxis, insertions, grafts, and epexegesis.