Slavic Languages in Universal Dependencies

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project that is developing crosslinguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning and linguistic research from a language typology perspective. It is a merger and extension of several previous efforts aimed at finding unified approaches to parts of speech, morphosyntactic descriptions and syntactic dependency relations. In the present contribution we address the application of UD to Slavic languages. We devote the most space to peculiarities of pronouns, determiners, numerals and quantifiers. Other language features that are discussed include modal verbs, ellipsis, nominal predicates, and reflexive pronouns. Most of our examples are from Czech but the language features demonstrated are usually portable to other Slavic languages. We include examples from the other languages where appropriate.