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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl is used for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a noun. Note that in English relative clauses get assigned a specific relation acl:relcl, a subtype of acl.

Non-relative clause finite clausal complements for nouns are limited to complement clauses with a subset of nouns like fact or report. We analyze them as acl (parallel to the analysis of this class as “content clauses” in Huddleston and Pullum 2002). Such clausal complements are usually finite (though there are occasional remnant English subjunctives).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

1740 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl.

1723 instances of acl (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.82873563218391.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (1534; 88% instances), PRON-VERB (59; 3% instances), PROPN-VERB (47; 3% instances), NOUN-ADJ (27; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (23; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (16; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (8; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (4; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (2; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

506 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl.

502 instances of acl (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.56324110671937.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (439; 87% instances), PRON-VERB (28; 6% instances), NOUN-ADJ (10; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (10; 2% instances), ADJ-VERB (5; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (2; 0% instances), DET-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

501 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl.

501 instances of acl (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.18163672654691.

The following 28 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (236; 47% instances), ADJ-VERB (109; 22% instances), ADV-VERB (43; 9% instances), PRON-VERB (40; 8% instances), NOUN-ADP (21; 4% instances), NOUN-ADJ (9; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (5; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (5; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (4; 1% instances), ADV-AUX (4; 1% instances), ADP-VERB (3; 1% instances), PRON-ADP (3; 1% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-AUX (1; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADP (1; 0% instances), DET-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-AUX (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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