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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark dialogue participant addressed in text (common in emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

154 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

87 instances of vocative (56%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.18831168831169.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (44; 29% instances), NOUN-PROPN (40; 26% instances), INTJ-PROPN (15; 10% instances), VERB-NOUN (11; 7% instances), NOUN-NOUN (10; 6% instances), ADJ-PROPN (9; 6% instances), ADV-PROPN (6; 4% instances), INTJ-NOUN (6; 4% instances), INTJ-DET (2; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 1% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 1% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

16 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

8 instances of vocative (50%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.3125.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (11; 69% instances), NOUN-NOUN (2; 13% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 6% instances), INTJ-PROPN (1; 6% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 6% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

94 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

50 instances of vocative (53%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.71276595744681.

The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-NOUN (41; 44% instances), VERB-PROPN (23; 24% instances), NOUN-NOUN (9; 10% instances), ADJ-PROPN (5; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 4% instances), NOUN-PROPN (4; 4% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 1% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 1% instances), INTJ-NOUN (1; 1% instances), INTJ-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 1% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (1; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 1% instances).


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