| POS tag | Tag description | GOLD reference |
|---|
| ADJ | adjective | Adjectival |
| ADVm | manner adverb | Adverbial |
| ADVplc | place adverb | Adverbial |
| ADVtemp | temporal adverb | Adverbial |
| ART | article | Article |
| AUX | auxiliary | Auxiliary |
| CARD | cardinal numeral (e.g.4, sixty-five) | CardinalNumeral |
| CL | clitic | Clitic |
| ADJC | comparative adjective | ComparativeAdjective |
| COMP | complementiser | Complementizer |
| CONJ | conjunction | Connective |
| CONJC | coordinating conjunction (e.g. and, or) | CoordinatingConnective |
| COP | copula | Copula |
| COPident | identity copula | Copulative |
| DEM | demonstrative | Demonstrative |
| DET | determiner | Determiner |
| Vdtr | Ditransitive verb | DitransitiveVerb |
| PRTexist | existential marker | ExistentialMarker |
| Wh | wh-word | InterrogativeOperator |
| PROint | interrogative pronoun | InterrogativeOperator |
| PRTint | interrogative particle | InterrogativeOperator |
| Vitr | Intransitive verb | IntransitiveVerb |
| Vmod | modal verb | Modal |
| ADVneg | negative operator | NegationOperator |
| CLFnom | nominal classifier | NominalClassifier |
| PRTn | nominal particle | NominalParticle |
| NNO | noun neutral for number (e.g. data, aircraft) | Noun |
| N | common noun | Noun |
| CN | common noun | Noun |
| Ncomm | noun with common gender (Norwegian | Noun |
| NFEM | feminine noun | Noun |
| NMASC | masculine noun | Noun |
| NNEUT | neuter noun | Noun |
| Nbare | bare noun | Noun |
| NUM | numeral | Numeral |
| CLFnum | numeral classifier | NumeralClassifier |
| ORD | ordinal | OrdinalNumeral |
| PTCP | participle | Participle |
| PRT | particle | Particle |
| NUMpart | partitive numeral | PartitiveNumeral |
| PN | personal pronoun | PersonalPronoun |
| PNposs | possessive pronoun | PossessivePronoun |
| PPOST | postposition | Postposition |
| PREP | preposition | Preposition |
| Vpre | preverb | Preverb |
| Np | Proper noun | ProperNoun |
| QUANT | quantifier | Quantifier |
| PNrefl | reflexive pronoun | ReflexivePronoun |
| PNrel | relative pronoun | RelativePronoun |
| PREPsel | selected preposition | Selected preposition |
| CONJS | subordinating conjunction (e.g. although, when) | SubordinatingConnective |
| ADJS | superlative adjective | SuperlativeAdjective |
| Vtr | transitive verb | TransitiveVerb |
| V | verb | Verbal |
| PRTv | verbal particle | VerbalParticle |
| Vneg | negative verb | no match |
| Vcon | converb | no match |
| PNana | pronominal anaphor | no match |
| PNdem | demonstrative pronoun | no match |
| IPHON | ideophone, onomatopoeia | no match |
| REL | relative clause marker | no match |
| ADV | adverb | no match |
| Vlght | light verb | no match |
| VtrOBL | transitive verb with a prepositional object | no match |
| VitrOBL | intransitive verb with a prepositional object | no match |
| Vimprs | impersonal verb | no match |
| Vrefl | reflexive verb | no match |
| PREPtemp | temporal preposition | no match |
| PREPdir | directional preposition | no match |
| Nspat | spatial noun | no match |
| EXPL | expletive pronoun | no match |
| PRTposs | possessive particle | no match |
| PRTpred | predicative particle | no match |
| PRTprst | presentational particle | no match |
| PNabs | absolute pronoun (Bantu) | no match |
| Vbid | verbbid(Kwa) | no match |
| INTRJCT | interjection | no match |
| Nrel | relational noun | no match |
| COPloc | locative copula | no match |
| COPneg | negative copula | no match |
| PRTinf | infinitive marker | no match |
| Npname | personal name | no match |
| Nploc | name of a location | no match |
| Npinst | name of an institution | no match |
| PUN | punctuation:general separating mark -e.g. , ; . ! : ? | no match |
| PUL | punctualtion: left bracket -e.g. ( or [ , etc. | no match |
| PUR | punctuation: right bracket - e.g. ) or ], etc. | no match |
| PUQ | punctuation: quotation marks - 'or " | no match |
| PROPana | propositional anaphor | no match |
| V4 | fourth verb in a chain | no match |
| CLF | classifier | no match |
| CIRCP | circumposition | no match |
| TRUNC | truncation | no match |
| MOD | modifier | no match |
| PRTneg | negative particle | no match |
| V3 | third verb in a verbal chain | no match |
| V2 | second verb in a verbal chain | no match |
| V1 | first verb in a verbal chain | no match |
| ADJatt | attributive adjective | no match |
| ADJpret | predicative adjective | no match |
| CONJSinf | subordinating conjunction (introducing an infinitive clause) | no match |
| XY | non-words such as "JU52" | no match |
| PRTresp | response words such as, "thanks, please, no, yes..." | no match |
| ADVdir | directional adverb | no match |
| PREPplc | locative preposition | no match |
| Vvector | vector verb | no match |
| NE | | no match |