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dislocated: dislocated elements

The dislocated relation is used for fronted or postposed elements that do not fulfill the usual core grammatical relations of a sentence. Dislocated elements are attached to the same governor as the dependent that they double for.

This is our office , me and Sam
dislocated(office, me)
cc(me, and)
conj(me, Sam)
The Mezza Luna : you should try it .
det(Luna-3, The-1)
compound(Luna-3, Mezza-2)
dislocated(it-8, Luna-3)
nsubj(try-7, you-5)
aux(try-7, should-6)
root(root-0, try-7)
dobj(try-7, it-8)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

2 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as dislocated.

2 instances of dislocated (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 8.5.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dislocated: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (1; 50% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/NOUN (1; 50% instances).

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1	anyways	anyways	ADV	RB	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mezza	mezza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	luna	luna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	dobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Bush	Bush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	dobj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Pakistani	pakistani	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubjpass	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	auxpass	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	auxpass	_	_
26	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	reparandum	_	_
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	not	not	ADV	RB	_	29	neg	_	_
29	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	dobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

2 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as dislocated.

1 instances of dislocated (50%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 11.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dislocated: en-pos/PRON-en-pos/NOUN (1; 50% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NOUN (1; 50% instances).

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1	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	11	dislocated	_	_
2	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	_	_	DET	WDT	_	6	nsubj	_	_
6	_	_	VERB	VBP	_	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	_	_	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	_	_	DET	PRP$	_	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	13	nsubj	_	_
12	_	_	AUX	MD	_	13	aux	_	_
13	_	_	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
14	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	13	dobj	_	_
15	_	_	ADJ	JJR	_	13	xcomp	_	_
16	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
17	_	_	ADV	RB	_	18	neg	_	_
18	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	15	conj	_	_
19	_	_	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	_	_	VERB	VB	_	18	ccomp	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_

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1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	7	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	CONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	1	conj	_	_
4	_	_	AUX	VBP	_	7	aux	_	_
5	_	_	VERB	VBN	_	7	cop	_	_
6	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	7	amod	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	0	root	_	_
8	_	_	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	_	_	NUM	CD	_	10	nummod	_	_
10	_	_	NOUN	NNS	_	7	nmod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	_	_	DET	PRP$	_	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	1	dislocated	_	_
14	_	_	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

140 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as dislocated.

74 instances of dislocated (53%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.65.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dislocated: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (42; 30% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (40; 29% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (22; 16% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (8; 6% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (8; 6% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (3; 2% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PRON (2; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (2; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (2; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADP (1; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NUM (1; 1% instances).

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1	As	_	SCONJ	_	_	3	case	_	_
2	to	_	ADP	_	_	3	mwe	_	_
3	me	_	PRON	PERS-P1SG-ACC	_	9	dislocated	_	_
4	,	_	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	_	PRON	PERS-P1SG-NOM	_	9	nsubj	_	_
6	had	_	AUX	PAST-AUX	_	9	aux	_	_
7	hardly	_	ADV	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	ever	_	ADV	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	spoken	_	VERB	PERF	_	0	root	_	_
10	to	_	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	_	PRON	PERS-P3SG-ACC	_	9	nmod	_	_
12	before	_	ADP	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	9	punct	_	_

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1	It	_	PRON	EX-P3SG	_	2	expl	_	_
2	was	_	VERB	PAST	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	_	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	_	DET	DEF	_	5	det	_	_
5	park	_	NOUN	SG	_	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	7	punct	_	_
7	too	_	ADV	_	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	2	punct	_	_
9	that	_	SCONJ	REL	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Stillman	_	PROPN	SG	_	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rested	_	VERB	PAST	_	2	dislocated	_	_
12	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Five	_	NUM	CARD-PL	_	2	nummod	_	_
2	year	_	NOUN	PL	_	4	amod	_	_
3	s'	_	PART	GEN	_	2	case	_	_
4	experience	_	NOUN	SG	_	9	dislocated	_	_
5	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	_	CONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	_
7	d'	_	VERB	PRES	_	9	aux	_	_
8	you	_	PRON	PERS-P2	_	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	_	VERB	INF	_	0	root	_	_
10	what	_	PRON	WH	_	9	dobj	_	_
11	as	_	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
12	?	_	PUNCT	Questionmark	_	9	punct	_	_


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