DESCRIPTION OF THE ROMANIAN SYNTAX WITHIN UNIVERSAL DEPENDENCY PROJECT

This paper presents the effort of describing the Romanian syntax within the Universal Dependency project. This means, on the one hand, adopting some principles of syntactic annotation that have never been used for Romanian. On the other hand, it implies either using already established relations for the description of linguistic phenomena (the set of universal relations) or postulating new relations (language(s) specific), subsumed to the universal set. Mapping the existent Romanian treebanks to this annotation style is not at all trivial and manual intervention is required.