mwe
: multi-word expression
The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the
relations for compounding and it is intended for function words.
In Czech it is used for multi-word prepositions.
The leftmost word is the head and all the other words are attached as its mwe
modifiers.
Multi-word prepositions usually form a contiguous span of the sentence. In exceptional cases however, they can be interrupted by emphasizers and other words:
Another type of interruption is caused by a possessive determiner. For instance, na základě něčeho “based on something” contains the multi-word preposition na základě “based on”, lit. on the-basis-of. This expression is etymologically a combination of a proper preposition na “on” and the noun základ “basis”; the argument něčeho “something” is in genitive. If the phrase na základě were not analyzed as a multi-word expression, we would have a normal genitive modification between two nominals: základ něčeho “basis of-something”. A genitive modifier can be substituted by a possessive determiner, and this is possible even within the partially frozen multi-word preposition, as with the relative possessive determiner in the following example:
Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)
This relation is universal.
4337 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe
.
4337 instances of mwe
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.20059949273692.
The following 25 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe
: ADP-NOUN (2321; 54% instances), ADP-ADP (1095; 25% instances), CONJ-SCONJ (393; 9% instances), ADV-ADP (330; 8% instances), SCONJ-ADV (72; 2% instances), NOUN-ADP (44; 1% instances), PART-SCONJ (13; 0% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (13; 0% instances), ADV-SCONJ (11; 0% instances), PART-ADV (11; 0% instances), PART-ADP (9; 0% instances), PRON-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (3; 0% instances), SCONJ-CONJ (3; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-PART (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), PRON-PART (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CAC)
This relation is universal.
2324 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe
.
2324 instances of mwe
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.17254733218589.
The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe
: ADP-NOUN (1339; 58% instances), ADP-ADP (497; 21% instances), CONJ-SCONJ (166; 7% instances), PART-ADP (129; 6% instances), ADV-ADP (114; 5% instances), NOUN-ADP (19; 1% instances), ADV-SCONJ (15; 1% instances), SCONJ-ADV (14; 1% instances), SCONJ-ADP (6; 0% instances), CONJ-SYM (4; 0% instances), PART-ADV (4; 0% instances), ADP-SYM (3; 0% instances), PART-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADV-PART (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-CONJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADP (1; 0% instances), SYM-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CLTT)
This relation is universal.
328 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as mwe
.
328 instances of mwe
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.20426829268293.
The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe
: ADP-NOUN (258; 79% instances), ADP-ADP (66; 20% instances), ADV-ADP (3; 1% instances), SCONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances).
mwe in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]