VAN

VAN, passive participle, is by default nominative -- N(ominative) is not tagged especially (not VAN-N). On the other hand oblique case (accusative, dative, genitive) is (VAN-A, VAN-D, VAN-G respectively). When ambiguous, the default is chosen, i.e. tag VAN.

A few examples are given below.

VAN (non-oblique, nominative):

<pre
( (IP-MAT (CONJ en-en)
	  (NP-SBJ *pro*)
	  (ADJP-SPR (ADV svo-svo) (VAN búið-búa))
	  (MDDI mátti-mega)
	  (NEG ekki-ekki)
	  (VB standa-standa)
	  (. ,-,)))

VAN-A (accusative):

<pre
( (IP-MAT (CONJ og-og)
	  (NP-SBJ *con*)
	  (VBPI segir-segja)
	  (, :-:)
	  (IP-MAT-SPE (NP-1 (ADJ-A Mikinn-mikill) (N-A garp-garpur))
		      (HVPI höfum-hafa)
		      (NP-SBJ (PRO-N vér-ég))
		      (ADVP-LOC (ADV hér-hér))
		      (PP (P að-að)
			  (NP (N-D velli-völlur)))
		      (IP-SMC-SPE (NP-SBJ *T*-1)
				  (VAN-A LAGÐAN-LEGGJA))
		      (. ,-,))))

VAN-D (dative)

<pre
( (IP-MAT (PP (P Að-að)
	      (IP-SMC (VAN-D liðnu-líða)
		      (NP-SBJ (N-D nóni-nóni))))
	  (BEDI voru-vera)
	  (NP-SBJ (QS-N flestir-margur) (NS-N leitarmenn-leitarmaður))
	  (VBN komnir-koma)
	  (. ;-;)))