vocative: vocative
The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
Examples:
Slán leat , a chara `Goodbye , friend’
Slán leat , a chara \n Goodbye with_you, [] friend
vocative(Slán, chara)
Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad, go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat `I think Mairead, that I’m in love with you’
Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad , go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat \n Is belief with_me [] Mairead , that am I in love with_you
vocative(dóigh, Mháiréad)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This relation is universal.
20 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
13 instances of vocative (65%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 6.
The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: ga-pos/VERB-ga-pos/PROPN (6; 30% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/PROPN (5; 25% instances), ga-pos/VERB-ga-pos/NOUN (5; 25% instances), ga-pos/ADJ-ga-pos/PROPN (1; 5% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/NOUN (1; 5% instances), ga-pos/PRON-ga-pos/NOUN (1; 5% instances), ga-pos/PROPN-ga-pos/NOUN (1; 5% instances).
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1 PÁIDÍ Páidí PROPN Noun Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _
2 Cuir cuir VERB VTI Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ _
3 do do DET Det Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes 4 nmod:poss _ _
4 lámh lámh NOUN Noun Case=Com|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 dobj _ _
5 thar thar ADP Simp _ 7 case _ _
6 mo mo DET Det Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes 7 nmod:poss _ _
7 ghualainn gualainn NOUN Noun Case=Com|Form=Len|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _
8 , , PUNCT Punct _ 10 punct _ _
9 a a PART Voc PartType=Voc 10 case:voc _ _
10 sheanduine duine NOUN Noun Case=Voc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _
11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _
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1 ' ' PUNCT Punct _ 2 punct _ _
2 Slán slán NOUN Noun Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
3 leat le ADP Prep Number=Sing|Person=2 2 nmod:prep _ _
4 , , PUNCT Punct _ 2 punct _ _
5 a a PART Voc PartType=Voc 6 case:voc _ _
6 Dhoráid Dhoráid PROPN Noun Case=Voc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _
7 ! ! PUNCT ! _ 2 punct _ _
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1 ( ( PUNCT Punct _ 3 punct _ _
2 Ag ag ADP Simp _ 3 case _ _
3 béicíl béicíl NOUN Noun VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _
4 ) ) PUNCT Punct _ 3 punct _ _
5 Téigh téigh VERB VTI Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ _
6 abhaile abhaile ADV Dir _ 5 advmod _ _
7 , , PUNCT Punct _ 8 punct _ _
8 a a PART Voc PartType=Voc 9 case:voc _ _
9 bhithiúnaigh bithiúnach NOUN Noun Case=Voc|Form=Len|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 vocative _ _
10 ! ! PUNCT ! _ 5 punct _ _
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