vocative: vocative
The vocative relation is used to mark dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
Ganix, etorri !
Ganix, come !
Ganix, etorri! \n Ganix, come!
vocative(etorri-3, Ganix-1)
punct(etorri-3, ,-2)
punct(etorri-3, !-4)
Nora zoaz, Kurt ?
Where are you going, Kurt ?
Nora zoaz, Kurt ? \n Where you_are_going, Kurt ?
vocative(zoaz-2, Kurt-4)
punct(zoaz-2, ,-3)
advmod(zoaz-2, Nora-1)
punct(zoaz-2, ?-5)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)
This relation is universal.
42 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
28 instances of vocative (67%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.21428571428571.
The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PROPN (25; 60% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NOUN (17; 40% instances).
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1 - - PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ _
2 Zer zer DET _ Case=Abs|Definite=Ind 3 dobj _ _
3 gertatzen gertatu VERB _ Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
4 zaizu izan AUX _ Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=2 3 aux _ _
5 , , PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ _
6 Ganix Ganix PROPN _ Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 3 vocative _ _
7 ? ? PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ _
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1 Ez ez PART _ Negative=Neg 6 discourse _ _
2 , , PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
3 ez ez PART _ Negative=Neg 6 neg _ _
4 naiz izan AUX _ Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=1 6 aux _ _
5 bakarrik bakarrik ADV _ _ 6 advmod _ _
6 egoiten egon VERB _ Aspect=Imp|VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
7 e e NOUN _ Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _
8 ! ! PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
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