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nmod:own: haver

In Finnish, there is no direct equivalent to the verb have. Rather, having is expressed using the verb olla, to be. For instance, the meaning of the sentence I have a pen would be expressed in Finnish by Minulla on kynä, literally “At me is a pen”, with “me” in the adessive and “pen” in the nominative case. In UD Finnish, these so called possessive clauses (omistuslause) are analyzed as a subtype to existential clauses, (eksistentiaalilause) making the thing had (kynä in the previous example) the subject.

This kind of an analysis would naturally result in the haver being marked as a nominal modifier, nmod. However, as nmod is a very frequent dependency type that encodes many different meanings, the information that the clause is about having or owning would be lost. Therefore, the UD Finnish scheme applies the nmod:own dependency type for nominal modifiers that encode owning, following the approach of TDT. The governor of the dependency is the verb olla, and the dependent is the haver or owner, which is required to be in the adessive case. The haver must also be an animate being or a group of animate beings.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod. There are also 3 other language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:gobj, nmod:gsubj, nmod:poss.

284 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as nmod:own.

268 instances of nmod:own (94%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.45070422535211.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:own: VERB-PRON (186; 65% instances), VERB-NOUN (69; 24% instances), VERB-PROPN (22; 8% instances), VERB-ADJ (5; 2% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 1% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod. There are also 2 other language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:gobj, nmod:gsubj.

602 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as nmod:own.

520 instances of nmod:own (86%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.45847176079734.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:own: VERB-PRON (405; 67% instances), VERB-NOUN (95; 16% instances), VERB-PROPN (43; 7% instances), NOUN-PRON (21; 3% instances), ADJ-PRON (15; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (14; 2% instances), VERB-VERB (4; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances).


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