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appos: appositional modifier

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

There is a slight deviation from the universal standard in case of more than one appositive nominal. Instead of attaching them all to the first noun, all the appositive modifiers are put together in coordination, then attached as appos to the modified noun. This is done regardless whether the appositives are joined by a coordinating conjunction or just a comma.

appos is also used to link key-value pairs in addresses, signatures, etc. (see also the list label):


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

7802 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos.

7785 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.95962573699052.

The following 66 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (3106; 40% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1199; 15% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1072; 14% instances), NOUN-VERB (279; 4% instances), VERB-VERB (216; 3% instances), NOUN-NUM (205; 3% instances), ADJ-ADJ (171; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (141; 2% instances), NUM-NOUN (130; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (124; 2% instances), PROPN-VERB (109; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (106; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (96; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (91; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (74; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (65; 1% instances), PROPN-NUM (56; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (51; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (46; 1% instances), NUM-PROPN (45; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (39; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (33; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (30; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (25; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (23; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (20; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (18; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (17; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (16; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (16; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (15; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (14; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (13; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (13; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (13; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (13; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (11; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (8; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (7; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (6; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (6; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (6; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (5; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (5; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (5; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (4; 0% instances), DET-NUM (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (4; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (4; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (3; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (2; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (2; 0% instances), ADV-PART (1; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), DET-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-INTJ (1; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (1; 0% instances), SYM-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-PART (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CAC)

This relation is universal.

2176 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos.

2166 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.45588235294118.

The following 52 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (1371; 63% instances), PROPN-NOUN (160; 7% instances), ADJ-ADJ (122; 6% instances), NOUN-PROPN (99; 5% instances), NOUN-PRON (42; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (41; 2% instances), VERB-VERB (40; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (39; 2% instances), ADJ-NOUN (37; 2% instances), NOUN-ADJ (36; 2% instances), NUM-NOUN (22; 1% instances), NOUN-VERB (14; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (14; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (12; 1% instances), ADV-ADV (10; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (10; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (10; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (8; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (7; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (6; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (5; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (5; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (4; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (4; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (4; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (3; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (3; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (3; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (3; 0% instances), SYM-SYM (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (2; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-SYM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CLTT)

This relation is universal.

79 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos.

78 instances of appos (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.92405063291139.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (67; 85% instances), ADJ-ADJ (4; 5% instances), ADJ-ADV (2; 3% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 1% instances), ADV-PART (1; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (1; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 1% instances), VERB-X (1; 1% instances), X-PART (1; 1% instances).


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