This is part of archived UD v1 documentation. See http://universaldependencies.org/ for the current version.
home en/dep issue tracker

csubj: clausal subject

A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb. In the two following examples, what she said is the subject.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

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

212 instances of csubj (62%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.20821114369501.

The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: ADJ-VERB (150; 44% instances), VERB-VERB (109; 32% instances), NOUN-VERB (55; 16% instances), VERB-ADJ (8; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (3; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (2; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 1% instances), VERB-PROPN (2; 1% instances), ADJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

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

158 instances of csubj (70%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.96444444444444.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: ADJ-VERB (125; 56% instances), NOUN-VERB (45; 20% instances), VERB-VERB (31; 14% instances), NOUN-ADJ (5; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (4; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), AUX-VERB (2; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

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

81 instances of csubj (55%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.50340136054422.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: VERB-VERB (67; 46% instances), ADJ-VERB (39; 27% instances), NOUN-VERB (33; 22% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 2% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 1% instances), NOUN-AUX (1; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 1% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 1% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 1% instances).


csubj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy