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iobj: indirect object

The indirect object of a (verbal) predicate is the nominal which is the dative object of the verb. The relation iobj is used for objects that are not direct objects. It occurs only when there is a dobj or ccomp in the clause.

Note that prepositional phrases are not considered core arguments in English, hence in she gave it to me, the to me part is attached as nmod although semantically it corresponds to the dative.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

460 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

460 instances of iobj (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.16086956521739.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (389; 85% instances), VERB-NOUN (46; 10% instances), VERB-PROPN (22; 5% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

207 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

204 instances of iobj (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.07729468599034.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (190; 92% instances), VERB-NOUN (14; 7% instances), VERB-PROPN (2; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

66 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

62 instances of iobj (94%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.39393939393939.

The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (43; 65% instances), VERB-NOUN (18; 27% instances), VERB-PROPN (5; 8% instances).


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