Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní

Abstract

This paper presents the first treebank of Mbyá Guaraní, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The Mbyá treebank is part of Universal Dependencies, a project that aims to create a set of guidelines for the consistent grammatical annotation of typologically different languages. We describe the composition of the treebank, and non-trivial choices that were made in the adaptation of Universal Dependencies guidelines to the annotation of Mbyá.