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det: determiner

A determiner is the relation between the head of an NP and its determiner.

The man is here
det(man, The)
Which book do you prefer ?
det(book, Which)
You 've all won !
nsubj(won, You)
det(You, all)
aux(won, 've)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of det: det:predet.

18678 nodes (8%) are attached to their parents as det.

18624 instances of det (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.65033729521362.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with det: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/DET (16846; 90% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/DET (1351; 7% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/DET (305; 2% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/DET (57; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/DET (52; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/DET (19; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (13; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (13; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/DET (8; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	AP	AP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	AP	AP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	dobj	_	_
7	and	and	CONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of det: det:predet.

7286 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as det.

7252 instances of det (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.38827889102388.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with det: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/DET (6874; 94% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/DET (182; 2% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/DET (84; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (47; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/DET (40; 1% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/DET (21; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/DET (16; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADP (3; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	_	_	PRON	EX	_	2	expl	_	_
2	_	_	VERB	VBZ	_	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	DET	DT	_	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	5	amod	_	_
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	2	nsubj	_	_
6	_	_	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	_	_	VERB	VB	_	5	acl	_	_
8	_	_	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	_	_	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	_	_	DET	DT	_	11	det	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	12	nsubj	_	_
12	_	_	VERB	VBP	_	2	advcl	_	_
13	_	_	PART	RB	_	12	neg	_	_
14	_	_	VERB	VB	_	12	xcomp	_	_
15	_	_	PRON	NN	_	14	dobj	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	AUX	VBP	_	3	aux	_	_
3	_	_	VERB	VBN	_	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	DET	PRP$	_	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	3	dobj	_	_
6	_	_	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	_	_	DET	DT	_	9	det	_	_
9	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	3	nmod	_	_
12	_	_	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	14	compound	_	_
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nmod	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
17	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	18	nsubj	_	_
18	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	3	conj	_	_
19	_	_	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	_	_	DET	DT	_	21	det	_	_
21	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	18	nmod	_	_
22	_	_	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	24	amod	_	_
24	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	18	nmod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	6	nsubj	_	_
4	_	_	VERB	VBZ	_	6	cop	_	_
5	_	_	DET	DT	_	6	det	_	_
6	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	1	parataxis	_	_
7	_	_	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	_	_	DET	DT	_	9	det	_	_
9	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod	_	_
10	_	_	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	12	amod	_	_
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod	_	_
13	_	_	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	_	_	DET	DT	_	15	det	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	12	nmod	_	_
16	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
17	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	18	amod	_	_
18	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	12	conj	_	_
19	_	_	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	18	nmod	_	_
21	_	_	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	_	_	DET	DT	_	24	det	_	_
23	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	24	compound	_	_
24	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	20	nmod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

7897 nodes (10%) are attached to their parents as det.

7896 instances of det (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.51348613397493.

The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with det: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/DET (7267; 92% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/DET (163; 2% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/DET (153; 2% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (124; 2% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/DET (66; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (62; 1% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/DET (16; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/DET (13; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/DET (11; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), en-pos/PUNCT-en-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances).

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1	Linking	_	VERB	ING	_	0	root	_	_
2	a	_	DET	IND-SG	_	3	det	_	_
3	page	_	NOUN	SG	_	1	dobj	_	_
4	to	_	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	_	DET	IND-SG	_	7	det	_	_
6	connection	_	NOUN	SG	_	7	compound	_	_
7	file	_	NOUN	SG	_	1	nmod	_	_

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1	The	_	DET	DEF	_	2	det	_	_
2	same	_	ADJ	POS	_	0	root	_	_
3	everywhere	_	ADV	TOT-WH	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	3	punct	_	_
5	now	_	ADV	_	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	I	_	PRON	PERS-P1SG-NOM	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'm	_	VERB	PRES	_	3	cop	_	_
3	afraid	_	ADJ	POS	_	0	root	_	_
4	you	_	PRON	PERS-P2	_	6	nsubj	_	_
5	've	_	AUX	PRES-AUX	_	6	aux	_	_
6	got	_	VERB	PERF	_	3	amod	_	_
7	the	_	DET	DEF	_	10	det	_	_
8	wrong	_	ADJ	POS	_	10	amod	_	_
9	Paul	_	PROPN	SG	_	6	dobj	_	_
10	Auster	_	PROPN	SG	_	9	name	_	_
11	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	3	punct	_	_


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