Case: case
In Bulgarian only some nouns have special vocative forms (v):
Examples
- Иване, приятелю, Родино, Стефке / Ivane, priyatelyu, Rodino, Stefke (Ivan, friend, homeland, Stefka)
The cases are still alive in personal pronouns: nominative (n), accusative (a) and dative (d).
Examples
- нея, тя, му, го / neya, tya, mu, go (her.ACC.LONG, she.NOM, him.DAT.SHORT, him.ACC.SHORT).
Accusative and dative cases are still present in the masculine, singular forms of some other pronouns – interrogative, indefinite, collective, relative, negative. Please note that the dative forms are analytical and thus, only the accusative form is marked after the preposition ‘на’.
Examples
- кого, някого, никого / kogo, nyakogo, nikogo (whom, someone.ACC, nobody.ACC)
- на кого, на някого, на никого / na kogo, na nyakogo, na nikogo (to whom, to someone.ACC, to nobody.ACC)
In our tagset another idiosyncratic case has been marked – the so-called ‘dative possessive case’ (s). It refers to situations where the short possessive pronoun comes before its possessor noun and thus – next to the verb.
Examples
- Той ми взе шапката / Toy mi vze shapkata ‘He my.POSS took hat.DEF’ (He took my hat.)
The canonical sentence would be: Той взе шапката ми / Toy vze shapkata mi ‘He took hat.DEF my.POSS’ (He took my hat).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 4 different values: Acc, Dat, Nom, Voc.
9151 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of Case.
122 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case.
29 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case.
The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: bg-pos/PRON (9119; 6% instances), bg-pos/ADJ (24; 0% instances), bg-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), bg-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances).
PRON
9119 bg-pos/PRON tokens (90% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (8450; 93%), PronType=Prs (7193; 79%), Gender=EMPTY (5928; 65%), Person=EMPTY (5783; 63%), Reflex=EMPTY (5262; 58%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:
Acc(4395; 48% of non-emptyCase): се, го, него, я, ги, тях, нас, ме, нея, ниDat(835; 9% of non-emptyCase): си, му, ми, й, им, ти, ни, ви, мен, менеNom(3889; 43% of non-emptyCase): си, това, той, които, който, тя, те, която, което, азEMPTY(975): му, ни, й, им, ми, ви, ти, защо, това, каквото
| Paradigm аз | Nom | Acc | Dat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3 | той | го, него | му, нему |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3 | тя | я, нея | й |
| Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3 | то | го, него | му |
| Number=Sing|Person=1 | аз | ме, мен, мене | ми, мен, мене |
| Number=Sing|Person=2 | ти, вие | те, тебе, ви, вас, теб | ти, ви |
| Number=Plur|Person=1 | ние, ний | нас, ни | ни |
| Number=Plur|Person=2 | вие | вас, ви | ви |
| Number=Plur|Person=3 | те | ги, тях | им, тям |
ADJ
24 bg-pos/ADJ tokens (0% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Case co-occurred: Degree=Pos (24; 100%), VerbForm=EMPTY (24; 100%), Number=Sing (24; 100%), Aspect=EMPTY (24; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (24; 100%), Voice=EMPTY (24; 100%), Gender=Masc (24; 100%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Case:
Voc(24; 100% of non-emptyCase): Нови, уважаеми, драги, млади, Велики, Преподобни, други, любезни, мили, скъпиEMPTY(13565): други, народното, българската, нова, другите, европейската, последните, 2001, друг, цялата
Case seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (11) occur only with one value of Case.
PROPN
4 bg-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.
The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (4; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (4; 100%), Gender=Masc (3; 75%).
PROPN tokens may have the following values of Case:
Acc(1; 25% of non-emptyCase): ПеткаVoc(3; 75% of non-emptyCase): Господи, Калине, ЯнкеEMPTY(8424): България, София, Иван, ЕС, Европа, СДС, Петър, Стоянов, Костов, Георги
DET
4 bg-pos/DET tokens (0% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Case co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (4; 100%), Number=Sing (4; 100%), Gender=Masc (4; 100%), Person=EMPTY (4; 100%), Definite=Def (3; 75%), PronType=Ind (3; 75%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Case:
Acc(1; 25% of non-emptyCase): никогоNom(3; 75% of non-emptyCase): единиятEMPTY(2429): тази, този, тези, това, всички, един, какво, една, всеки, всяка
Relations with Agreement in Case
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case:
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (6; 100%).
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