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Case: case

In English, the Case feature is only used for some personal pronouns. Pronouns can be either in the direct or oblique case.

Nom: direct

The following pronouns are in the direct case:

Acc: oblique

The following pronouns are in the oblique case:

Note that you and it can be either in the direct or oblique case. If they appear in subject position, they are marked as Nom, while if they appear in object position or if they have a prepositional case marker, they are marked as Acc.

Reflexive pronouns only have this feature if they are used in object position and not if they are used as intensive pronouns.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Acc, Nom.

14837 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of Case. 43 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. 16 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (14837; 6% instances).

PRON

14837 en-pos/PRON tokens (66% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (14837; 100%), PronType=Prs (14837; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (10878; 73%), Number=Sing (9031; 61%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm INomAcc
Ime

Relations with Agreement in Case

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case: PRON –[conj]–> PRON (20; 71%).


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