Feature: voice

Feature group	Feature type	Data type	Available for node types
Morphological	node	string	word

Feature description

Verbal voice of the verb.

Feature values

voice (this feature)	explanation	Frequency
Active	Sentences subject is agent of the verb’s action	20742
Middle	Sentences subject is both agent and affected by the verb’s action	2408
MiddlePassive		1714
Passive	The subject of the verb is being acted upon	3493
’’	Empty for wordtypes other than verbs	109422

Notes

Planned for future version: active, middle, passive, middle_or_passive, middle_deponent, passive_deponent, middle_or_passive_deponent, impersonal_active, and no_voice. Possibly by just adding a feature ‘deponent’?

Source description

Taken from the (optional) XML attribute Voice for each element node representing a word.

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