nmod:npmod
: noun phrase as adverbial modifier
This relation is a subtype of the nmod relation, which captures the following cases where something syntactically a noun phrase is used as an adverbial modifier in a sentence:
(i) a measure phrase, which is the relation between the head of an adjectival/adverbial or prepositional phrase and the head of a measure phrase modifying it:
(ii) noun phrases giving an extent to a verb, which are not objects:
(iii) financial constructions involving an adverbial, notably the following construction $5 a share, where the second nominal means “per share”:
(iv) floating reflexives
and (v) certain other absolutive nominal constructions.
A temporal modifier nmod:tmod is a subclass of npmod which is distinguished as a separate relation.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.
There are also 2 other language-specific subtypes of nmod
: nmod:poss, nmod:tmod.
708 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as nmod:npmod
.
449 instances of nmod:npmod
(63%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.23446327683616.
The following 43 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:npmod
: VERB-NOUN (161; 23% instances), ADJ-NOUN (130; 18% instances), ADV-NOUN (129; 18% instances), NOUN-NOUN (71; 10% instances), ADJ-ADJ (23; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (21; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (21; 3% instances), NOUN-PROPN (19; 3% instances), ADJ-SYM (15; 2% instances), VERB-PRON (14; 2% instances), PROPN-NOUN (10; 1% instances), ADV-ADJ (9; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (8; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (6; 1% instances), NOUN-SYM (6; 1% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (6; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (6; 1% instances), NUM-PROPN (5; 1% instances), PROPN-PRON (4; 1% instances), SYM-NOUN (4; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (4; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADV-SYM (2; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (2; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), VERB-DET (2; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (1; 0% instances), SYM-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances), X-NOUN (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.
There are also 2 other language-specific subtypes of nmod
: nmod:poss, nmod:tmod.
196 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as nmod:npmod
.
127 instances of nmod:npmod
(65%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.61734693877551.
The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:npmod
: ADV-NOUN (65; 33% instances), VERB-NOUN (58; 30% instances), ADJ-NOUN (27; 14% instances), NOUN-NOUN (17; 9% instances), NOUN-PRON (7; 4% instances), VERB-ADJ (6; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (3; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 1% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 1% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 1% instances), PROPN-PRON (1; 1% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 1% instances).