neg: negation modifier
neg marks the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies.
Er hat den Mann nicht gesehen . \n He didn't see the man .
neg(gesehen, nicht)
Er will nicht mehr Fußball spielen . \n He doesn't want to play soccer anymore .
neg(mehr, nicht)
Er hat keinen Regenschirm mitgebracht . \n He didn't bring an umbrella .
neg(Regenschirm, keinen)
Treebank Statistics (UD_German)
This relation is universal.
1459 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.
1170 instances of neg (80%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.28649760109664.
The following 27 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PART (778; 53% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PRON (276; 19% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/PART (141; 10% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PART (104; 7% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADV (48; 3% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PART (45; 3% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/ADV (11; 1% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/PART (10; 1% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (8; 1% instances), de-pos/CONJ-de-pos/PART (6; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PART (4; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), de-pos/PART-de-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), de-pos/SCONJ-de-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), de-pos/AUX-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), de-pos/AUX-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PART-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).
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1 Mehr mehr PRON PIAT Case=Acc|PronType=Ind 5 dobj _ _
2 braucht brauchen AUX VVFIN Person=3|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _
3 man man PRON PIS Case=Nom|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _
4 nicht nicht PART PTKNEG _ 5 neg _ _
5 sagen sagen VERB VVINF VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
6 . . PUNCT $. _ 5 punct _ _
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1 Hab Hab AUX NN _ 9 aux _ _
2 ' ' PUNCT $( _ 1 punct _ _
3 ich ich PRON PPER Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _
4 vorher vorher ADV ADV _ 9 advmod _ _
5 noch noch ADV ADV _ 9 advmod _ _
6 von von ADP APPR _ 8 case _ _
7 keinem kein PRON PIAT PronType=Neg 8 neg _ _
8 Optiker Optiker NOUN NN Case=Dat|Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _
9 geboten bieten|gebieten VERB VVPP VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _
10 bekommen bekommen VERB VVINF VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _
11 . . PUNCT $. _ 9 punct _ _
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1 Brauch brauchen VERB VVIMP _ 0 root _ _
2 ich ich PRON PPER Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _
3 aber aber ADV ADV _ 1 advmod _ _
4 nicht nicht PART PTKNEG _ 5 neg _ _
5 wieder wieder ADV ADV _ 1 advmod _ _
6 . . PUNCT $. _ 1 punct _ _
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