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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies.

En social gemenskap existerar inte \n A social community doesn't exist
neg(existerar, inte)
Det är inte fråga om att hjälpa till \n It's not a question of helping
neg(fråga, inte)
De är icke jämförbara \n They are not comparable
neg(jämförbara, icke)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

768 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

532 instances of neg (69%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.85807291666667.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: sv-pos/VERB-sv-pos/ADV (551; 72% instances), sv-pos/ADJ-sv-pos/ADV (94; 12% instances), sv-pos/NOUN-sv-pos/ADV (81; 11% instances), sv-pos/ADV-sv-pos/ADV (17; 2% instances), sv-pos/CONJ-sv-pos/ADV (13; 2% instances), sv-pos/PRON-sv-pos/ADV (7; 1% instances), sv-pos/NUM-sv-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), sv-pos/DET-sv-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), sv-pos/PROPN-sv-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	Två	två	NUM	RG|NOM	Case=Nom	2	nummod	_	_
2	huvudfaktorer	huvudfaktor	NOUN	NN|UTR|PLU|IND|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Gender=Com|Number=Plur	4	nsubjpass	_	_
3	kan	kunna	AUX	VB|PRS|AKT	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	4	aux	_	_
4	urskiljas	urskilja	VERB	VB|INF|SFO	VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	som	som	PRON	HP|-|-|-	PronType=Int,Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	förklarar	förklara	VERB	VB|PRS|AKT	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	2	acl	_	_
7	men	men	CONJ	KN	_	6	cc	_	_
8	inte	inte	ADV	AB	_	9	neg	_	_
9	ursäktar	ursäkta	VERB	VB|PRS|AKT	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	MAD	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Kvinnorna	kvinna	NOUN	NN|UTR|PLU|DEF|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Gender=Com|Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	är	vara	AUX	VB|PRS|AKT	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	cop	_	_
3	inte	inte	ADV	AB	_	6	neg	_	_
4	något	någon	ADV	AB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vidare	vid	ADV	AB|KOM	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	aktiva	aktiv	ADJ	JJ|POS|UTR/NEU|PLU|IND/DEF|NOM	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	annars	annars	ADV	AB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	MAD	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Inte	inte	ADV	AB	_	2	neg	_	_
2	mannen	man	NOUN	NN|UTR|SIN|DEF|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Gender=Com|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	.	.	PUNCT	MAD	_	2	punct	_	_


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