ADJP

ADJP, adjective phrase (icel. lýsingarorðsliður)

Example 1: rauður (e. 'red') As in the PPCME2, single-word adjectives only project an ADJP at the clause level (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/annotation/syn-const.htm#clause_adjp)

<synttree>[ADJP[ADJ[rauður]]]</synttree>

Example 2: rauður bíll (e. 'red car')

<synttree>[NP [ADJ [rauður]] [N [bíll]]]</synttree>

Example 3: mjög rauður (e. 'very red')

<synttree>[ADJP [ADV [mjög]] [ADJ [rauður]]]</synttree>

Example 4: mjög rauður bíll (e. 'very red car')

<synttree>[NP[ADJP [ADV [mjög]] [ADJ [rauður]]][N[bíll]]]</synttree>

Example 5: Á Íslandi liggur hérað eitt mikið og fagurt

<synttree>[ADJP[ADJ[mikið]][CONJ[og]][ADJ[fagurt]]]</synttree>

Comparatives in ADJP

Comparatives where there is no obvious clausal structure in the comparative phrase (i.e. no verb, no subject and gap of a verb), they are treated just like PP complements of ADJR in the PPCME2. If the object of the comparison is simply a dative NP, the PP level is omitted and the phrase is parsed as parallel to "NP Complements of PP" in the PPCME2 (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/annotation/syn-phrase.htm#adjp_comp_np). The NP is *not* given an extended dash tag, but dative is marked on the pos-tag, as in the example below:

( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (N-FSNIC Sjón-sjón))
	  (BEP-IA3SP er-vera)
	  (ADJP (NP (N-FSAIC sögu-saga))
		(ADJR-FSAWC ríkari-ríkur))
	  (, ,-,)))

Modifiers of ADJ

There can be pre-head modifiers of ADJ inside an ADJP, which are parsed as sisters to ADJ. These can be ADV, ADVP, and it also appears to be the case in Icelandic that some PPs can function as adverbials modifying an ADJ. We annotate these exactly analogously to examples pre-head ADVP in the PPCME2, PPCEME corpora, but the label is PP rather than ADVP; see the predicate ADJP in the example below:

( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (PRO-PMPN Þeir-hann)
		  (, ,-,)
		  (CP-REL (C-R sem-sem)
			  (IP-SUB-2 (NP-SBJ *T*-1)
				    (VBP-IA3PP rita-rita)
				    (IP-SUB-PRN=2 (CONJ og-og)
						  (NP-SBJ *con*)
						  (VBN-UA ritað-rita)
						  (HVP-IA3PP hafa-hafa))
				    (PP (P-A um-um)
					(NP (NP-POS (N-NSGDC lands$-land) (D $ins-hinn))
					    (NP (N-NSNIC gagn-gagn) (CONJ og-og) (N-FPNIC nauðsynjar-nauðsyn)))))))
	  (, ,-,)
	  (VBP-IA3PP verða-verða)
	  (NEG ekki-ekki)
	  (ADJP (PP (P-A á-á)
		    (NP (ONE-PNSA eitt-einn)))
		(ADJ-MPNSP sáttir-sáttur))
	  (PP (P-A um-um)
	      (NP (D-DNSA það-sá) (N-NSAIC efni-efni)))
	  (; ;-;)))

Complements of ADJ

The adjective "nærri" is tagged and parsed in the same way as "near" or "nearly" in the PPCEME, PPCME2, depending on its meaning (see Treatment of individual words ). When "nærri" means "near", as in "they were sailing near land", it is tagged "ADJ", projects an ADJP-LOC where ADJ has an NP complement, as below:

	 (ADJP-LOC (ADJ nær)
                   (NP (N landi)))

If "nærri" means "nearly", as in "it was nearly nighttime when they reached the town", it is tagged/parsed as an ADV (see Treatment of individual words and ADVP).