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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of a nominal is a nominal immediately following the first that serves to define or modify it. Appositional modifiers include parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

508 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos.

505 instances of appos (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.50393700787402.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (288; 57% instances), VERB-NOUN (36; 7% instances), NOUN-PROPN (34; 7% instances), VERB-VERB (25; 5% instances), PROPN-NOUN (18; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (17; 3% instances), NOUN-VERB (12; 2% instances), VERB-NUM (10; 2% instances), ADJ-VERB (8; 2% instances), NOUN-ADJ (8; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (8; 2% instances), NOUN-NUM (7; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (4; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (4; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (3; 1% instances), NUM-ADV (3; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (2; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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