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nsubjpass: passive nominal subject

A passive nominal subject is a noun phrase which is the syntactic subject of a passive clause.

Dole was defeated by Clinton
nsubjpass(defeated, Dole)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

1402 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nsubjpass.

1365 instances of nsubjpass (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.84022824536377.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubjpass: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (713; 51% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (415; 30% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (118; 8% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (112; 8% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (12; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (10; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/SYM (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NUM (4; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances).

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1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubjpass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	auxpass	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:npmod	_	_
3	later	later	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubjpass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	auxpass	_	_
7	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
8	that	that	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubjpass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	auxpass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Fallujah	Fallujah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_


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