This data set contains frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the Brown corpus of written American English (Francis & Kucera 1964), aggregated by genre category.
BrownPassives
A data frame with 15 rows and the following columns:
cat
:genre category code (A
... R
)
passive
:number of passive verb phrases
n_w
:total number of words in the genre category
n_s
:total number of sentences in the genre category
name
:descriptive label for the genre category
Stephanie Evert (https://purl.org/stephanie.evert)
Francis, W.~N. and Kucera, H. (1964). Manual of information to accompany a standard sample of present-day edited American English, for use with digital computers. Technical report, Department of Linguistics, Brown University, Providence, RI.
LOBPassives
, BrownLOBPassives