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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. Also comparative constructions are annotated using dependency relation advcl.

He ran shouting.

I was offered something to eat, when I arrived from school in the evening


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This relation is universal.

3130 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

1960 instances of advcl (63%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.28051118210863.

The following 36 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (1952; 62% instances), VERB-NOUN (288; 9% instances), ADJ-VERB (217; 7% instances), ADJ-NOUN (97; 3% instances), NOUN-VERB (92; 3% instances), VERB-ADV (86; 3% instances), NOUN-NOUN (73; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (63; 2% instances), VERB-PROPN (42; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (35; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (17; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (16; 1% instances), ADJ-ADV (13; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (13; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (12; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (12; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (12; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (11; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (11; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (8; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (8; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (7; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (7; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (5; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (5; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (5; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (4; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (3; 0% instances), VERB-X (2; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (1; 0% instances).


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