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nsubj: nominal subject

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for nsubj.

A nominal subject is a noun phrase which is the syntactic subject of a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb, which can be an adjective or noun.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

15829 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

13042 instances of nsubj (82%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 4.00530671552214.

The following 72 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (7543; 48% instances), VERB-PROPN (2625; 17% instances), VERB-PRON (1103; 7% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1085; 7% instances), ADJ-NOUN (983; 6% instances), NOUN-NOUN (905; 6% instances), NOUN-PRON (191; 1% instances), NOUN-SYM (175; 1% instances), VERB-SYM (159; 1% instances), ADJ-SYM (145; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (138; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (121; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (105; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (71; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (57; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (53; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (52; 0% instances), VERB-X (46; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (29; 0% instances), VERB-DET (27; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (26; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (14; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (14; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (14; 0% instances), NOUN-X (12; 0% instances), X-NOUN (12; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (11; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (9; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (9; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (8; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (7; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (6; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (5; 0% instances), ADJ-X (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (5; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (4; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (3; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (3; 0% instances), AUX-SYM (3; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (2; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (2; 0% instances), DET-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (2; 0% instances), X-PRON (2; 0% instances), X-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (1; 0% instances), AUX-DET (1; 0% instances), AUX-NUM (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (1; 0% instances), AUX-X (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-DET (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PART-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-X (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), SYM-NUM (1; 0% instances), SYM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish-AnCora)

This relation is universal.

29708 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

24736 instances of nsubj (83%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 4.17890803823886.

The following 55 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (13043; 44% instances), VERB-PRON (6492; 22% instances), VERB-PROPN (5713; 19% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1153; 4% instances), NOUN-NOUN (817; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (484; 2% instances), ADJ-PRON (308; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (306; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (205; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (191; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (156; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (102; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (85; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (69; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (64; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (48; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (43; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (42; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (37; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (34; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (30; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (29; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (27; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (27; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (22; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (20; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (20; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (16; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (15; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (9; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (9; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (9; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (8; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (8; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (6; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (6; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (6; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (6; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (5; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (5; 0% instances), DET-ADV (4; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (4; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (3; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), AUX-NUM (2; 0% instances), DET-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (2; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (2; 0% instances), SYM-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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