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nsubj: nominal subject

The dependency type nsubj marks nominal subjects of the non-copular clause.

Eeva tuli töistä . \n Eeva came from_work .
nsubj(tuli-2, Eeva-1)
nmod(tuli-2, töistä-3)
punct(tuli-2, .-4)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nsubj: nsubj:cop.

11866 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

9706 instances of nsubj (82%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.91538850497219.

The following 21 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (6943; 59% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (2860; 24% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (1882; 16% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (74; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (34; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NUM (20; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/SYM (19; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/X (11; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/AUX-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/AUX-fi-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/CONJ-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Se	se	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	sisäinen	sisäinen	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	3	amod	_	_
3	lapseni	lapsi	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1	6	nsubj	7:nsubj	_
4	ei	ei	VERB	V	Negative=Neg|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	neg	_	_
5	vaan	vaan	ADV	Adv	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	suostu	suostua	VERB	V	Connegative=Yes|Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	katoamaan	kadota	VERB	V	Case=Ill|InfForm=3|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	“	“	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mä	minä	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Style=Coll	3	nsubj	_	_
3	painan	painaa	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mä	minä	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Style=Coll	6	nsubj	_	_
6	painan	painaa	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	”	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Minttu	Minttu	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	muuten	muuten	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	väitti	väittää	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
4	aika	aika	ADV	Adv	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hartaasti	hartaasti	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	tätä	tämä	PRON	Pron	Case=Par|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	paitaa	paita	NOUN	N	Case=Par|Number=Sing	3	dobj	_	_
8	hameeksi	hame	NOUN	N	Case=Tra|Number=Sing	3	xcomp:ds	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

15930 nodes (10%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

13664 instances of nsubj (86%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.00539861895794.

The following 35 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (6644; 42% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (4672; 29% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (1644; 10% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (789; 5% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (573; 4% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (440; 3% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (378; 2% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (237; 1% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (154; 1% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PROPN (82; 1% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PRON (62; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (60; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NOUN (32; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NUM (31; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/NOUN (30; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/ADJ (20; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/PRON (15; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADJ (14; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/PROPN (7; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/INTJ-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/INTJ-fi-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	x:n	x	NOUN	N,Abbr,Sg,Gen	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	tarvii	tarvita	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Voice=Act	3	aux	_	Style=Dialectal
3	toimia	toimia	VERB	V,Act,InfA,Lat	Case=Lat|InfForm=1|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_

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1	Saulista	sauli	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Ela	Case=Ela|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
2	huomattiin	huomata	VERB	V,Pass,Ind,Past	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	jo	jo	ADV	Pcle	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lapsena	lapsi	NOUN	N,Sg,Ess	Case=Ess|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	4	punct	_	_
6	että	että	SCONJ	Pcle,CS	_	8	mark	_	_
7	hänellä	hän	PRON	Pron,Pers,Sg3,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	on	olla	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Voice=Act	2	ccomp	_	_
9	lahjoja	lahja	NOUN	N,Pl,Par	Case=Par|Number=Plur	8	dobj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	9	punct	_	_

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1	Dora	dora	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	puolestaan	puolestaan	ADV	Pcle	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ei	ei	VERB	V,Neg,Act,Sg3	Negative=Neg|Number=Sing|Person=3|Voice=Act	4	neg	_	_
4	huolestunut	huolestua	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg,ConNeg	Conneg=Yes|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	4	punct	_	_


nsubj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]