Developing Multilingual Multiword Expressions (MWEs) Resources: An Annotated Corpus of Fables following the PARSEME guidelines

Abstract

This paper introduces a Brazilian Portuguese corpus of fables developed as part of a broader multilingual initiative. It comprises the narratives and their concluding moral statements (epimythia), annotated for morphosyntax and multiword expressions (MWEs) according to the Universal Dependencies (UD) and PARSEME guidelines, respectively. The analysis reveals that 53.59% of the sentences contain at least one MWE, with inherently reflexive verbs (IRVs) constituting the most frequent category. MWEs are also distributed differently: narratives contain a higher proportion of adverbial MWEs, whereas adpositional MWEs are frequent in epimythia. Future work will enrich the corpus through semantic annotation based on Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR).