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csubj: clausal subject

csubj marks a clausal subject of a sentence.

Aber warum nur so wenige Frauen ein Polizeipräsidium leiten , hat verschiedene Gründe . \n But why only so few women lead a police department has different reasons .
csubj(hat, leiten)

For copula constructions, the head of the clausal subject is the predicative complement of the copula.

Ob dies die Unzufriedenheit zu zügeln vermag , ist zweifelhaft \n Whether this can control the unrest is dubious .
csubj(zweifelhaft, vermag)

Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

This relation is universal.

200 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as csubj.

132 instances of csubj (66%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.845.

The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: de-pos/VERB-de-pos/VERB (93; 47% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/VERB (58; 29% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/VERB (26; 13% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADJ (4; 2% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADJ (4; 2% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/VERB (3; 2% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/NOUN (3; 2% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/NOUN (2; 1% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/VERB (2; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADP (1; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADJ (1; 1% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/ADJ (1; 1% instances).

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1	Wer	wer	PRON	PWS	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eine	ein	DET	ART	Case=Acc|Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	andere	ander	ADJ	ADJA	Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
4	Politik	Politik	NOUN	NN	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
5	will	wollen	VERB	VMFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	csubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	$,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	muß	müssen	AUX	VMFIN	Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	auch	auch	ADV	ADV	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	anders	anders	ADV	ADV	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	wählen	wählen	VERB	VVINF	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	10	punct	_	_

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1	Anmerkenswert	Anmerkenswert	ADJ	NN	_	0	root	_	_
2	ist	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	$,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	dass	dass	SCONJ	KOUS	_	8	mark	_	_
5	der	der	DET	ART	Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Laden	Laden	NOUN	NN	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	auch	auch	ADV	ADV	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ausbildet	ausbilden	VERB	VVFIN	Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin	1	csubj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Warum	warum	ADV	PWAV	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	die	der	PRON	PDS	Case=Nom|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	wieder	wieder	ADV	ADV	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	aufmachen	aufmachen	VERB	VVINF	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
5	durften	dürfen	AUX	VMFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
6	ist	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	mir	ich	PRON	PPER	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	ein	ein	DET	ART	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rätsel	Rätsel	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	$.	_	9	punct	_	_


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