The PROIEL Treebank
The PROIEL Treebank is a dependency treebank with morphosyntactic and information-structure annotation. It includes texts in several ancient Indo-European languages and is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Please cite as
Dag T. T. Haug and Marius L. Jøhndal. 2008. 'Creating a Parallel Treebank of the Old Indo-European Bible Translations'. In Caroline Sporleder and Kiril Ribarov (eds.). Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2008) (2008), pp. 27-34.
Releases of the PROIEL Treebank are hosted on Github.
Contents
The following texts are included in this release of the treebank:
| Text | Language | Filename | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Greek New Testament (ed. Tischendorf 1869) | Ancient Greek | greek-nt | 140,763 tokens |
| The Armenian New Testament (ed. Künzle 1984) | Classical Armenian | armenian-nt | 23,513 tokens |
| The Gothic Bible (ed. Streitberg 1919) | Gothic | gothic-nt | 57,211 tokens |
| Codex Marianus (ed. Jagić 1883) | Old Church Slavonic | marianus | 58,269 tokens |
| Jerome's Vulgate | Latin | latin-nt | 112,454 tokens |
| Caesar, Commentarii belli Gallici (ed. Holmes 1914) | Latin | caes-gal | 28,607 tokens |
| Cicero, De officiis (ed. Miller 1913) | Latin | cic-off | 10,644 tokens |
| Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum (ed. Purser 1901) | Latin | cic-att | 42,855 tokens |
| Palladius, Opus agriculturae (ed. Schmitt 1898) | Latin | pal-agr | 12,148 tokens |
| Peregrinatio Aetheriae (ed. Heraeus 1908) | Latin | per-aeth | 18,356 tokens |
| Herodotus, Histories (ed. Godley 1920) | Ancient Greek | hdt | 85,080 tokens |
| Sphrantzes, Chronicles (post-1453) (ed. Grecu 1966) | Ancient Greek | chron | 24,612 tokens |
(The 'size' column in the table above shows the number of annotated tokens in a text. The number of tokens will be slightly larger than the number of words in the original printed edition as some words have been split into multiple tokens and some tokens have been inserted during annotation.)
Please see the XML files for detailed metadata and a full list of contributors.
Some sentences have not yet been annotated. This is an overview of where in the texts unannotated sentences occur:
Sections in which more than half of sentences have not yet been annotated:
armenian-nt: JOHN 1-21, MATT 1-28, MARK 1-16caes-gal: 5.8-5.58, books 7, book 8cic-att: 6.2-6.9, 7.2-7.9, 7.11-7.26, 8.1-8.16cic-off: 1.114-1.161, book 2, book 3greek-nt: HEB 13, 1PET 3-5, 2PET 1-3, 1JOHN 1-5, 2JOHN 1, 3JOHN 1, JUDE 1hdt: 1.70, 1.127-1.130, 1.200, book 2, book 3, 4.1-4.156, 5.94-5.101, 6.82, 6.86, 7.1, 7.31, 8.8-8.144, book 9latin-nt: COL 3-4, 1TIM 1-6, 2TIM 1-3, HEB 1-13, JAS 1-5, 1PET 1-5, 2PET 1-3, 1JOHN 1-5, 2JOHN 1, 3JOHN 1pal-agr: 2.12, 3.13-3.34, books 4-14
Sections or section ranges in which there are gaps:
armenian-nt: LUKE 3caes-gal: 6.36cic-att: 1.17-1.20, 2.3-2.24, 3.20-3.23, 4.2-4.19, 5.2-5.21, 6.1, 7.1cic-off: 1.7-1.10, 1.38, 1.48, 1.61, 1.100, 1.106, 1.112, 1.133hdt: 1.45-1.69, 1.126, 1.141-1.216, 4.157-4.198, 5.1-5.109, 6.12-6.138, 7.2-7.198, 7.220-7.234, 8.3-8.7latin-nt: ACTS 21-28, ROM 11, ROM 13, GAL 1-6, EPH 3-5, PHIL 1, PHIL 3, COL 1-2, 2THESS 3, 2TIM 4, JUDE 1marianus: MATT 5, MARK 16, LUKE 2, LUKE 24, JOHN 1-2, JOHN 18, JOHN 20pal-agr: 1.4-1.12, 1.35-1.40, 2.3, 2.9-2.23, 3.9-3.10
These gaps will be completed in future releases.
Data formats
The texts are available on two formats:
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PROIEL XML: These files are the authoritative source files and the only ones that contain all available annotation. They contain the complete morphological, syntactic and information-structure annotation, as well as the complete text, including punctuation, section headers etc. The schema is defined in
proiel.xsd.