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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of a noun is a nominal immediately following the first noun that serves to define or modify that noun. It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.

Karel IV . , římský císař a český král , vládl ve 14 . století . \n Charles IV . , Roman Emperor and Czech king , ruled in 14 th century .
appos(Karel, císař)
appos(Charles, Emperor)
conj(císař, král)
conj(Emperor, king)
Občanská demokratická strana ( ODS ) \n Civic Democratic Party ( ODS )
appos(strana, ODS-5)
appos(Party, ODS-12)

There is a slight deviation from the universal standard in case of more than one appositive nominal. Instead of attaching them all to the first noun, all the appositive modifiers are put together in coordination, then attached as appos to the modified noun. This is done regardless whether the appositives are joined by a coordinating conjunction or just a comma.

Přijel Michal , můj bratr a Davidův bratranec . \n Came Michal , my brother and David's cousin .
appos(Michal-2, bratr)
appos(Michal-12, brother)
conj(bratr, bratranec)
conj(brother, cousin)
Michal , můj bratr , Davidův bratranec , přijede zítra . \n Michal , my brother , David's cousin , will-come tomorrow .
appos(Michal-1, bratr)
appos(Michal-13, brother)
conj(bratr, bratranec)
conj(brother, cousin)

appos is also used to link key-value pairs in addresses, signatures, etc. (see also the list label):

Jan Novák , tel . : 777-000-111 , e-mail : novak@ab.cz
name(Novák, Jan)
list(Novák, tel)
list(Novák, e-mail)
appos(tel, 777-000-111)
appos(e-mail, novak@ab.cz)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

7822 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos.

7822 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.94566607005881.

The following 71 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/NOUN (3097; 40% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/PROPN (1211; 15% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/NOUN (1063; 14% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/VERB (282; 4% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/VERB (216; 3% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/NUM (204; 3% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/ADJ (170; 2% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/NOUN (142; 2% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/NOUN (134; 2% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/NOUN (123; 2% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/VERB (109; 1% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/NOUN (108; 1% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/PRON (96; 1% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/ADJ (91; 1% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/VERB (75; 1% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/NOUN (60; 1% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/ADV (53; 1% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/NUM (53; 1% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/PROPN (45; 1% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/PROPN (45; 1% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/VERB (40; 1% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/VERB (33; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/PROPN (30; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/VERB (25; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/ADJ (23; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/ADV (19; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/ADV (18; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/PROPN (17; 0% instances), cs-pos/DET-cs-pos/NOUN (16; 0% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/ADJ (16; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/ADJ (15; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADP-cs-pos/NOUN (14; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/PRON (14; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/PRON (13; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/PROPN (13; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/PRON (13; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/NUM (11; 0% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON-cs-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), cs-pos/DET-cs-pos/PROPN (6; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/ADV (6; 0% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/NUM (5; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADP-cs-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/PART (4; 0% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), cs-pos/DET-cs-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM-cs-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/SYM-cs-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADJ-cs-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/ADV-cs-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/CONJ-cs-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/DET-cs-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/NOUN-cs-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/PART-cs-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/PART-cs-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/PROPN-cs-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/SYM-cs-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), cs-pos/VERB-cs-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Způsob	způsob	NOUN	NNIS1-----A----	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	tisku	tisk	NOUN	NNIS2-----A----	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	4	punct	_	_
4	INKJET	inkjet	NOUN	NNIS1-----A----	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_

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1	Foto	foto	NOUN	NNNS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Jan	Jan	PROPN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|NameType=Giv|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	Paprskář	Paprskář	PROPN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|NameType=Sur|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	3	name	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ředitel	ředitel	NOUN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Zásobování	zásobování	NOUN	NNNS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	LDeriv=zásobovat
9	teplem	teplo	NOUN	NNNS7-----A----	Case=Ins|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	LId=teplo-1
10	Ostrava	Ostrava	PROPN	NNFS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|NameType=Geo|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_

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1	Foto	foto	NOUN	NNNS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Jan	Jan	PROPN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|NameType=Giv|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	Paprskář	Paprskář	PROPN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|NameType=Sur|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	3	name	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ředitel	ředitel	NOUN	NNMS1-----A----	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	Z:-------------	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Zásobování	zásobování	NOUN	NNNS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	LDeriv=zásobovat
9	teplem	teplo	NOUN	NNNS7-----A----	Case=Ins|Gender=Neut|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	LId=teplo-1
10	Ostrava	Ostrava	PROPN	NNFS1-----A----	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|NameType=Geo|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_


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