UDante. Syntactic Annotation of Dante Alighieri's Latin Texts

This paper describes the process of building UDante, a corpus that collects the Latin texts of Dante Alighieri enhanced with syntactic annotation according to the criteria established by the Universal Dependencies initiative. After introducing the annotation style adopted, the article details the phases of development of UDante, particularly focusing on the process of conversion of the data format, as well as on their manual annotation. The inclusion of UDante in the LiLa knowledge base, which makes the corpus interoperable with other linguistic resources for Latin, is then described. Finally, some examples of queries run on UDante are presented, to show how the corpus can support the creation of the Vocabolario Dantesco Latino.