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mark: marker

A marker is the word introducing a clause subordinate to another clause. For a complement clause, this will typically be that or whether. For an adverbial clause, the marker is typically a preposition like before or a subordinating conjunction fulfilling a similar role like while or although. The mark is a dependent of the subordinate clause head.

The infinitive marker to is analyzed as a mark.

When a a noun or a verb takes a prepositionally marked non-core argument (modifier) and that modifier is a clause, then we also label that prepositon as mark (as it would not seem reasonable to call it case when it is marking a clause). The result will commonly be a doubly marked clause.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

8897 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as mark.

8893 instances of mark (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.48207260874452.

The following 52 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark: VERB-PART (3724; 42% instances), VERB-SCONJ (3515; 40% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (383; 4% instances), VERB-ADV (368; 4% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (308; 3% instances), ADJ-PART (94; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (83; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (67; 1% instances), ADV-SCONJ (60; 1% instances), ADJ-ADV (34; 0% instances), AUX-SCONJ (34; 0% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (34; 0% instances), PRON-SCONJ (29; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (16; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (15; 0% instances), PART-SCONJ (13; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (10; 0% instances), ADV-DET (9; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (9; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (8; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (8; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (8; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (6; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (6; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (5; 0% instances), ADV-PART (4; 0% instances), INTJ-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (4; 0% instances), ADV-ADP (3; 0% instances), NUM-PART (3; 0% instances), PRON-PART (3; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-PART (2; 0% instances), DET-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADP (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (2; 0% instances), SYM-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-PART (1; 0% instances), ADP-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX-PART (1; 0% instances), DET-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), SYM-PART (1; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

5081 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as mark.

5076 instances of mark (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.26864790395591.

The following 35 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark: VERB-PART (2307; 45% instances), VERB-SCONJ (1885; 37% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (346; 7% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (175; 3% instances), VERB-ADV (136; 3% instances), ADJ-PART (39; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (39; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (32; 1% instances), ADV-SCONJ (19; 0% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (18; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (15; 0% instances), AUX-SCONJ (11; 0% instances), PRON-SCONJ (10; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (8; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (8; 0% instances), ADV-PART (3; 0% instances), NUM-PART (3; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (3; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (2; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (2; 0% instances), DET-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), PRON-PART (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), AUX-PART (1; 0% instances), INTJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

2682 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as mark.

2674 instances of mark (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.5324384787472.

The following 42 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark: VERB-SCONJ (1118; 42% instances), VERB-PART (1101; 41% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (111; 4% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (78; 3% instances), AUX-SCONJ (75; 3% instances), VERB-ADP (27; 1% instances), ADJ-PART (21; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (21; 1% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (17; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (17; 1% instances), SCONJ-ADV (15; 1% instances), PRON-SCONJ (10; 0% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (8; 0% instances), ADV-SCONJ (7; 0% instances), AUX-PART (6; 0% instances), DET-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), PART-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (4; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADP-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-CONJ (2; 0% instances), AUX-ADP (2; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PRON-PART (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX-CONJ (1; 0% instances), DET-ADP (1; 0% instances), DET-PART (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), PART-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PART (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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