vocative: vocative
The vocative relation is used to mark dialogue participant addressed
in text (common in emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links
the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
Guys , take it easy!
vocative(take, Guys)
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is universal.
155 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
88 instances of vocative (57%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.1741935483871.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (44; 28% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PROPN (40; 26% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/PROPN (15; 10% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (12; 8% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (11; 7% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PROPN (9; 6% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/NOUN (7; 5% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/PROPN (6; 4% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/DET (2; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NOUN (2; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PROPN (2; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/PROPN (1; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NUM (1; 1% instances).
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1 Malach Malach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No
2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _
3 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _
4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _
5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _
6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _
7 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 dobj _ SpaceAfter=No
8 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _
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1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _
2 Morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _
3 Debra Debra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _
4 - - PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _
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1 Welcome welcome INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _
2 Darin Darin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No
3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _
vocative in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]