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nsubj: nominal subject

The nsubj marks nominal subjects of the non-copular clause. Being Basque a morphologically ergative language, subjects of transitive verbs are marked with the ergative case, while subjects of intransitive verbs are marked with the absolutive case.

Example of a subject in an intransitive sentence (ABS case):

Bi zati hauek markaturik dauden tokietatik tolesten dira .

These two parts fold by the sites that are marked .

Example of a subject in a transitive sentence (ERG case):

Eztabaida handia sortu du aldaketak .

The change has caused a huge discussion .

Being Basque a free word order language, arguments of the verb can appear in different orders with respect to the verb.

Aldaketak eztabaida handia sortu du .

The change has caused a huge discussion .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

8717 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

7038 instances of nsubj (81%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.34828496042216.

The following 77 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (4456; 51% instances), VERB-PROPN (1915; 22% instances), NOUN-NOUN (334; 4% instances), VERB-DET (318; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (300; 3% instances), VERB-PRON (221; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (205; 2% instances), NOUN-PROPN (158; 2% instances), VERB-NUM (100; 1% instances), NOUN-DET (85; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (85; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (42; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (39; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (37; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (33; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (27; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (26; 0% instances), X-NOUN (24; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (22; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (19; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (18; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (16; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (14; 0% instances), CONJ-NUM (13; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (13; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (13; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (12; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (9; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (9; 0% instances), X-PROPN (9; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (8; 0% instances), ADV-DET (8; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (8; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (8; 0% instances), PUNCT-DET (8; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (6; 0% instances), CONJ-ADJ (6; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (6; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (5; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (5; 0% instances), CONJ-DET (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (5; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (5; 0% instances), X-PRON (5; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (3; 0% instances), AUX-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-VERB (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), X-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (2; 0% instances), CONJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-DET (2; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (2; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PART-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances), X-ADJ (1; 0% instances), X-DET (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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