The TOROT Treebank

The TOROT Treebank is a dependency treebank with morphosyntactic and information-structure annotation. It includes texts in several stages of Slavic and is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Please cite as

Hanne Martine Eckhoff and Aleksandrs Berdicevskis. 2015. 'Linguistics vs. digital editions: The Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank'. Scripta & e-Scripta 2015 14–15, pp. 9-25.

Releases of the TOROT Treebank are hosted on Github.

Contents

The following texts are included in this release of the treebank:

Text	Language	Filename	Size
Codex Suprasliensis	Old Church Slavonic	supr	79070 tokens
Codex Zographensis	Old Church Slavonic	zogr	1098 tokens
Kiev Missal	Old Church Slavonic	kiev-mis	370 tokens
Psalterium Sinaiticum	Old Church Slavonic	psal-sin	248 tokens
Vita Constantini	Church Slavonic	vit-const	890 tokens
Vita Methodii	Church Slavonic	vit-meth	331 tokens
Afanasij Nikitin’s journey beyond three seas	Old Russian	afnik	6842 tokens
Birchbark letters	Old Russian	birchbark	1965 tokens
Charter of Prince Jurij Svjatoslavich of Smolensk on the alliance with Poland and Lithuania, 1386	Old Russian	smol-pol-lit	344 tokens
Colophon to Mstislav’s Gospel book	Old Russian	mstislav-col	259 tokens
Colophon to the Ostromir Codex	Old Russian	ostromir-col	199 tokens
Correspondence of Peter the Great	Old Russian	peter	100 tokens
Domostroj	Old Russian	domo	23459 tokens
Life of Sergij of Radonezh	Old Russian	sergrad	20361 tokens
Materials for the history of the schism	Old Russian	schism	1835 tokens
Missive from Prince Ivan of Pskov, 1463–1465	Old Russian	pskov-ivan	339 tokens
Missive from the Archbishop of Riga to the Prince of Smolensk	Old Russian	rig-smol1281	171 tokens
Mstislav’s letter	Old Russian	mst	158 tokens
Novgorod service book marginalia	Old Russian	nov-marg	93 tokens
Novgorod’s treaty with Grand Prince Jaroslav Jaroslavich, 1266	Old Russian	novgorod-jaroslav	423 tokens
Russkaja pravda	Old Russian	rusprav	4174 tokens
Statute of Prince Vladimir	Old Russian	ust-vlad	495 tokens
Testament of Ivan Jurievich Grjaznoj	Old Russian	dux-grjaz	421 tokens
The 1229 Treaty between Smolensk, Riga and Gotland (version A)	Old Russian	riga-goth	1421 tokens
The first Novgorod Chronicle, Synodal manuscript	Old Russian	nov-sin	17838 tokens
The Kiev Chronicle, Codex Hypatianus	Old Russian	kiev-hyp	544 tokens
The Life of Avvakum	Old Russian	avv	22835 tokens
The list of the Novgorodians’ losses	Old Russian	nov-list	187 tokens
The Primary Chronicle, Codex Hypatianus	Old Russian	pvl-hyp	3610 tokens
The Primary Chronicle, Codex Laurentianus	Old Russian	lav	56725 tokens
The Suzdal Chronicle, Codex Laurentianus	Old Russian	suz-lav	23760 tokens
The tale of Dracula	Old Russian	drac	2487 tokens
The tale of Igor’s campaign	Old Russian	spi	2850 tokens
The tale of Luka Kolocskij	Old Russian	luk-koloc	906 tokens
The taking of Pskov	Old Russian	pskov	2326 tokens
The tale of the fall of Constantinople	Old Russian	const	9258 tokens
Uspenskij sbornik	Old Russian	usp-sbor	25189 tokens
Varlaam’s donation charter to the Xutyn monastery	Old Russian	varlaam	148 tokens
Vesti-Kuranty	Old Russian	vest-kur	1154 tokens
Zadonshchina	Old Russian	zadon	2399 tokens
Conversion of the SynTagRus treebank	Russian	syn-FILENAME	892837 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.

Data formats

The texts (except the SynTagRus conversion) are available on two formats:

1. 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.

2. CoNLL-X format