Il y a

There are three possible annotations for il y a in French:

• Il y a as an adposition
• Il y a as an expletive construction
• Il y a as a locative pronoun

Il y a as an adposition

Sometimes, il y a is used to express a temporal argument.

Il y a as an expletive construction

Sometimes, il y a is used to express an expletive construction.

pattern {
  X1 [form="il"]; X2 [lemma="y"]; X3 [lemma="avoir"]; X1 << X2; X2 << X3 ;
  X3-[comp@expl]->X2 ; X3-[subj@expl]-> X1
}

Il y a with y as a locative pronoun

Sometimes, the y is a locative pronoun which express a location in the il y a expression

pattern {
  X1 [form="il"]; X2 [lemma="y"]; X3 [lemma="avoir"]; X1 << X2; X2 << X3 ;
  X3-[mod]->X2 ; X3-[subj]-> X1
}