Exploring Vocatives in Folk Songs of the Podillia Region

This dataset is based on the folklore collection Pisni Podillia: zapysy Nasti Prysiazhniuk v seli Pohrebyshche. 1920-1970 rr.  (Myshanych 1976). The collection consists of 850 songs, encompassing 13,005 lines and 78,888 tokens. Vocatives were manually distinguished and recorded in a separate column in the corpus without the assistance of RStudio, due to the complexity of distinguishing vocatives in Ukrainian.

Vocatives in Ukrainian folk songs were analysed using the R programming language along with RStudio. 

Code written for text analysis in Estonian Literary Museum. 

This dataset consists of the following files:

1. vocatives_Podillia_folk_songs.R: R script used for analyzing the corpus, including vocative counting, song length analysis, POS-tag analysis,  semantic group and structural types analysis. 

2. corpus_vocatives.csv: Contains the text data of Podillia folk songs with manually distinguished vocatives. 

3. corpus_POS_tokens.csv: Contains verified the POS-tagged tokens of the corpus.