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amod: adjectival modifier

amod marks adjectival modifiers that modify the meaning of a noun.

Er ißt rohes Fleisch . \n He eats raw meat .
amod(Fleisch, rohes)
die Rheintaler Bauern \n the farmers from the Rhine valley
amod(Bauern, Rheintaler)

Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

This relation is universal.

16787 nodes (6%) are attached to their parents as amod.

16449 instances of amod (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.32006910109013.

The following 29 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADJ (13860; 83% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (1723; 10% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADJ (539; 3% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PROPN (213; 1% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PRON (89; 1% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADJ (88; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADJ (79; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/ADJ (40; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NUM (36; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/NOUN (35; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/NUM (21; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/ADJ (15; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/ADJ (7; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/NUM (4; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADP (3; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/X (1; 0% instances), de-pos/AUX-de-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/X (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	Manasse	Manasse	PROPN	NN	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	ist	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	ein	ein	DET	ART	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	einzigartiger	einzigartig	ADJ	ADJA	Degree=Cmp,Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Parfümeur	Parfümeur	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	In	in	ADP	APPR	_	4	case	_	_
2	der	der	DET	ART	Case=Dat|Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Französischen	französisch	PROPN	ADJA	Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
4	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NN	Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
5	wurde	werden	AUX	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	auxpass	_	_
6	das	der	DET	ART	Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Kloster	Kloster	NOUN	NN	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	8	nsubjpass	_	_
8	aufgehoben	aufheben	VERB	VVPP	VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Also	also	ADV	ADV	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	liebes	lieb	ADJ	ADJA	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
3	MONACO	Monaco	PROPN	NE	_	4	name	_	_
4	TEAM	Team	PROPN	NN	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bleibt	bleiben	VERB	VVFIN	Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	ADV	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	wie	wie	CONJ	KOKOM	_	5	cc	_	_
8	ihr	ihr	PRON	PPOSAT	Case=Nom|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seid	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	$.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	$.	_	5	punct	_	_


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