Corpus of Czech Verse

This repo contains 1305 out of 1689 books of poetry from the Corpus of Czech Verse (384 books are still covered by copyright protection).

JSON files comprise not only the text themselves and their metadata but also:

• thorough annotation of poetic meters
• annotation of rhymes
• phonetic transcription
• tokenization
• lemmatization
• morphological tagging

*NOTE: There are several re-editions in the corpus. One poem thus may appear multiple times.

Structure

Each file holds poems coming from a single book of poetry. Each poem is a dict with following structure:

{
	'book_id': ID OF THE BOOK,
	'poem_ids': ID OF THE POEM,

	# Metadata on author or the editor of the entire book
	'b_author': {
		'identity': REAL NAME OF THE AUTHOR,
		'name': NAME AS PRINTED IN THE BOOK #it differs from 'identity' in case of pen name,
		'born': THE YEAR AUTHOR WAS BORN,
		'died': THE YEAR AUTHOR DIED,
	},

	# Metadata on author of the poem
	'p_author': {
		'identity': REAL NAME OF THE AUTHOR,
		'name': NAME AS PRINTED IN THE BOOK #it differs from 'identity' in case of pen name,
		'born': THE YEAR AUTHOR WAS BORN,
		'died': THE YEAR AUTHOR DIED,
	},
	
	'biblio': {
		'p_title': TITLE OF THE POEM,
		'b_title': TITLE OF THE BOOK,
		'b_subtitle': SUBTITLE OF THE BOOK,
		'publisher': PUBLISHER OF THE BOOK,
		'place': PLACE WHERE PUBLISHED,
		'year': YEAR WHEN PUBLISHED,
		'pages': PAGE RANGE OF THE POEM,
		'dedication': DEDICATION OF THE BOOK,
		'motto': MOTTO OF THE BOOK,
		'motto_aut': AUTHOR OF THE MOTTO,
		'edition': EDITION DESCRIPTION,
		'signature': LIBRARY INFO,
	},	

	# The poem itself encoded as a list of lists (stanzas x lines)
	'body' : [ [
		{
			'text': TEXT OF THE LINE,
			'stress': BITSTRING ENCODING STRESSED (1) and UNSTRESSED (0) SYLLABLES,
			'rhyme': RHYME INDEX (the lines that rhyme all share the same value here),

			# List of meters assigned to the line
			# (in rare cases of ambiguous line, different meters may be assigned to it)
			'meter': [{
				'type': J=iamb / T=trochee / D = dactyl / A = amphibrach / X = dactylotrochee / 
					Y = dactylotrochee with anacrusis / hexameter / pentameter / N = not recognized,
				'clause': TYPE OF LINE ENDING (f=feminine, m=masculine, a=acatalectic),
				'foot': NUMBER OF FOOT,
				'pattern': PATTERN OF STRONG(S) AND WEAK(W) POSITIONS,
			}, ...],

			# List of words and their metadata
			'words': [{
			      'token': WORD AS APPEARS IN THE TEXT,
			      'token_lc': LOWERCASED token,
			      'lemma': LEMMA,
			      'morph': MORPHOLOGICAL TAG (Prague positional system),
			      'xsampa': PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION IN XSAMPA,
			      'phoebe': SIMPLIFIED PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION (CCV INTERNAL FORMAT),
		
			}, ...],

			# Dict holding punctuation marks
			# Punctuation marks are stored under the key which corresponds
			# to the index of a word which the puntuation precedes
			# (for line-final puctuation key == len(words)
	 		'punct': {},		
		},
		...
	], ... ]
	
}

License

CC-BY-SA

Corpus of Czech verse is being built at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences. Please mention this information whenever you use the data provided here.

Furthermore we'd like to ask you to quote following articles:

What is CCV:

@article{ccv2015,
	author = {Plecháč, Petr and Kolár, Robert},
	title = {The Corpus of Czech Verse},
	doi = {10.12697/smp.2015.2.1.05},
	journal = {Studia Metrica et Poetica},
	number = {1},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {107--118},
}

How it was built:

@article{ccv2016,
	author = {Plecháč, Petr},
	title = {Czech Verse Processing System KVĚTA -- Phonetic and Metrical Components},
	doi = {10.1515/glot-2016-0013},
	journal = {Glottotheory},
	number = {2},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {159--174},
}