The TOROT Treebank is a dependency treebank with morphosyntactic and information-structure annotation. It includes texts in Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian and Middle Russian and is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
The treebank is an expansion of the Slavic part of the PROIEL corpus and was started as part of the research project Birds and Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian, which was financed by the Norwegian Research Council. The treebank is still in active development.
On this site you will find our official, versioned releases of the treebank. You can also try Syntacticus, an experimental interface for browsing and searching the TOROT and PROIEL treebanks and related treebanks. This interface is not yet ready for serious use, but it will be soon! The following texts are currently included:
| Text | Language |
|---|---|
| Codex Suprasliensis | Old Church Slavonic |
| Codex Zographensis | Old Church Slavonic |
| Kiev Missal | Old Church Slavonic |
| Psalterium Sinaiticum | Old Church Slavonic |
| Vita Constantini | Old Church Slavonic |
| Vita Methodii | Old Church Slavonic |
| Afanasij Nikitin’s journey beyond three seas | Old Russian |
| Birchbark letters | Old Russian |
| Charter of Prince Jurij Svjatoslavich of Smolensk on the alliance with Poland and Lithuania, 1386 | Old Russian |
| Colophon to Mstislav’s Gospel book | Old Russian |
| Colophon to the Ostromir Codex | Old Russian |
| Correspondence of Peter the Great | Old Russian |
| Domostroj | Old Russian |
| Life of Sergij of Radonezh | Old Russian |
| Materials for the history of the schism | Old Russian |
| Missive from Prince Ivan of Pskov, 1463–1465 | Old Russian |
| Missive from the Archbishop of Riga to the Prince of Smolensk | Old Russian |
| Mstislav’s letter | Old Russian |
| Novgorod service book marginalia | Old Russian |
| Novgorod’s treaty with Grand Prince Jaroslav Jaroslavich, 1266 | Old Russian |
| Russkaja pravda | Old Russian |
| Statute of Prince Vladimir | Old Russian |
| Testament of Ivan Jurievich Grjaznoj | Old Russian |
| The 1229 Treaty between Smolensk, Riga and Gotland (version A) | Old Russian |
| Excerpt from the First Novgorod Chronicle, Synodal manuscript | Old Russian |
| Excerpt from the Kiev Chronicle, Codex Hypatianus | Old Russian |
| The Life of Avvakum | Old Russian |
| Excerpt from the Primary Chronicle, Codex Hypatianus | Old Russian |
| The Primary Chronicle, Codex Laurentianus | Old Russian |
| Excerpt from the Suzdal Chronicle, Codex Laurentianus | Old Russian |
| The Tale of Dracula | Old Russian |
| The Tale of Luka Kolocskij | Old Russian |
| The taking of Pskov | Old Russian |
| The tale of the fall of Constantinople | Old Russian |
| Uspenskij sbornik | Old Russian |
| Varlaam’s donation charter to the Xutyn monastery | Old Russian |
| Excerpt from the Vesti-Kuranty | Old Russian |
| Zadonshchina | Old Russian |
Please see the data files in the release distribution for complete contributor details and editorial notes.
We are constantly expanding the treebank. The following texts are in the pipeline and will be included in an upcoming release:
| Text | Language |
|---|---|
| Chrabr's Treatise on the letters | Church Slavonic |
| Muscovite private correspondence | Old Russian |
| The tale of Igor's campaign | Old Russian |
| Treaty of Alexander Nevskij and Novgorod with the Germans | Old Russian |
If you use the treebank, please cite as:
Releases are hosted on Github, where you can also access previous releases.
The Slavic implementation of the morphosyntactic annotation scheme is described in the document TOROT Guidelines for Annotation, which are wholly compatible with and rely on the PROIEL Guidelines for Annotation.