The German chunker was trained on the Negra corpus and uses the
following chunk labels:

NC for noun chunks
PC for prepositional phrase chunks (NC + preposition/postposition)
VC verb chunk

Verb (complexes) in verb-first, verb-second, and verb-final position
are all marked as verb chunks. If the "Mittelfeld" of the sentence is
empty, as in the following example, the chunker nevertheless prints
two verb chunks.

<NC>
Er	PPER	er
</NC>
# finite verb in verb-second position
<VC>
soll	VMFIN	sollen
</VC>
# verb complex in verb-final position
<VC>
geraucht	VVPP	rauchen
haben	VAINF	haben
wollen	VMFIN	wollen
</VC>
.	$.	.

A noun chunk is a non-recursive noun phrase. Recursive noun phrases
such as "die Königin von Schweden" are analysed as an NC plus a PC.

A noun phrase with an embedded noun phrase in pre-head position is
split into two NCs plus the embedded NC(s) and/or PC(s) as the folling
example shows:

# first part of the matrix NP
<NC>
Das	ART	d
</NC>
# embedded NP
<NC>
sich	PRF	er|es|sie
</NC>
# embedded PP
<PC>
in	APPR	in
die	ART	d
Länge	NN	Länge
</PC>
# second part of the matrix NP
<NC>
ziehende	ADJA	ziehend
Treffen	NN	Treffen
</NC>