nmod:poss
: possessive nominal modifier
nmod:poss
is used for a nominal modifier which occurs before its head in the specifier position used for ‘s possessives. It is marked with the case
‘s or one of its variant forms. This relation isn’t used for other pre-head modifiers such as noun compounds or quotative phrases.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.
There are also 2 other language-specific subtypes of nmod
: nmod:npmod, nmod:tmod.
4330 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss
.
4330 instances of nmod:poss
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.60993071593533.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss
: NOUN-PRON (3553; 82% instances), NOUN-PROPN (379; 9% instances), NOUN-NOUN (239; 6% instances), PROPN-PROPN (69; 2% instances), PROPN-PRON (43; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (31; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (3; 0% instances), SYM-PRON (2; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), INTJ-INTJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (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:npmod, nmod:tmod.
2113 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss
.
2113 instances of nmod:poss
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.33270231897776.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss
: NOUN-DET (1905; 90% instances), NOUN-NOUN (116; 5% instances), NOUN-PROPN (33; 2% instances), NOUN-PRON (17; 1% instances), ADJ-DET (16; 1% instances), VERB-DET (9; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (7; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.
1236 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss
.
1235 instances of nmod:poss
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.25.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss
: NOUN-PRON (1186; 96% instances), ADJ-PRON (13; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (12; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (12; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (5; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (4; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances).