case: case marking
case marks mostly prepositions in prepositional phrases. Prepositions are considered dependents of the noun whose case value they govern. The case relation aims at providing a uniform analysis of prepositions and case in morphologically rich languages.
Sie stehen an der Straße . \n They stand on the street .
case(Straße, an)
Sie warten auf den Bus . \n They wait for the bus .
case(Bus, auf)
case is also used to mark the comparative marker in comparative constructions that involve noun phrases, prepositional phrases, or adjectives.
Der Bus ist schneller als die Straßenbahn . \n The bus is faster than the tram .
case(Straßenbahn, als)
Das sieht alles andere als einfach aus . \n This looks anything but simple .
case(einfach, als)
Treebank Statistics (UD_German)
This relation is universal.
31693 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as case.
31216 instances of case (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.05581674186729.
The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with case: de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADP (21079; 67% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADP (6750; 21% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/ADP (1245; 4% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/ADP (1001; 3% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (733; 2% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADP (324; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADP (188; 1% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/ADP (171; 1% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/CONJ (55; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PUNCT (20; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/ADP (18; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/ADP (16; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/CONJ (13; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/ADP (12; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/X (12; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/CONJ (10; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/CONJ (7; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/CONJ (7; 0% instances), de-pos/AUX-de-pos/ADP (6; 0% instances), de-pos/CONJ-de-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PART-de-pos/ADP (3; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PUNCT (2; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/X (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).
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# visual-style 8 6 case color:blue
1 Es _ PRON _ _ 5 nsubj _ _
2 war _ VERB _ _ 5 cop _ _
3 für _ ADP _ _ 4 case _ _
4 mich _ PRON _ _ 5 nmod _ _
5 Ausgangspunkt _ NOUN _ _ 0 root _ _
6 zu _ ADP _ _ 8 case _ _
7 einer _ DET _ _ 8 det _ _
8 Parfümkreation _ NOUN _ _ 5 nmod _ _
9 . _ PUNCT _ _ 5 punct _ _
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# visual-style 8 bgColor:blue
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# visual-style 8 7 case color:blue
1 Für _ ADP _ _ 2 case _ _
2 mich _ PRON _ _ 6 nmod _ _
3 die _ DET _ _ 6 det _ _
4 Anwaltskanzlei _ NOUN _ _ 6 cop _ _
5 Nummer _ NOUN _ _ 6 compound _ _
6 EINS _ NOUN _ _ 0 root _ _
7 in _ ADP _ _ 8 case _ _
8 Dresden _ PROPN _ _ 6 nmod _ _
9 . _ PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
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# visual-style 2 1 case color:blue
1 Seit _ ADP _ _ 2 case _ _
2 1964 _ NUM _ _ 11 nmod _ _
3 ist _ VERB _ _ 11 cop _ _
4 mein _ PRON _ _ 5 det _ _
5 Mann _ NOUN _ _ 11 nsubj _ _
6 rund _ ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ _
7 1 _ NUM _ _ 8 nummod _ _
8 mal _ ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ _
9 pro _ ADP _ _ 10 case _ _
10 Jahr _ NOUN _ _ 8 nmod _ _
11 Gast _ NOUN _ _ 0 root _ _
12 in _ ADP _ _ 14 case _ _
13 diesem _ PRON _ _ 14 det _ _
14 Hotel _ NOUN _ _ 11 nmod _ _
15 . _ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ _
case in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]