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nmod: nominal modifier

Nominal modifiers are inflected nominals which modify most commonly a verb or a noun phrase. They can occur alone or together with an adposition in an adpositional phrase. Both cases are analyzed similarly, as semantically nominal modifiers and adpositional phrases are similar.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal. There are 4 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:gobj, nmod:gsubj, nmod:own, nmod:poss.

22489 nodes (12%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

14029 instances of nmod (62%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.7111476721953.

The following 64 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (12927; 57% instances), NOUN-NOUN (3064; 14% instances), VERB-PRON (1911; 8% instances), VERB-PROPN (1136; 5% instances), VERB-NUM (592; 3% instances), ADJ-NOUN (496; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (396; 2% instances), NOUN-PROPN (346; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (276; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (184; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (137; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (118; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (104; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (93; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (90; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (66; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (57; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (51; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (42; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (42; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (40; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (29; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (27; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (25; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (20; 0% instances), X-NOUN (20; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (19; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (19; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (18; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (16; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (13; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (11; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (10; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (8; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (8; 0% instances), NOUN-X (7; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (7; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (6; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (6; 0% instances), VERB-X (6; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (5; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (5; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (3; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (3; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (2; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 0% instances), SYM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADV-SYM (1; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 0% instances), AUX-NUM (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-PUNCT (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal. There are 3 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:gobj, nmod:gsubj, nmod:own.

22349 nodes (14%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

11415 instances of nmod (51%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.04711620206721.

The following 51 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (10140; 45% instances), NOUN-NOUN (4754; 21% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1658; 7% instances), VERB-PRON (1540; 7% instances), VERB-PROPN (1115; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (703; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (694; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (250; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (250; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (225; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (145; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (138; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (137; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (104; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (97; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (92; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (63; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (29; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (27; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (22; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (19; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (19; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (18; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (17; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (11; 0% instances), X-X (10; 0% instances), NOUN-X (9; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (9; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (6; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (4; 0% instances), DET-PRON (4; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (4; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (4; 0% instances), X-PROPN (4; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (3; 0% instances), X-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-X (2; 0% instances), X-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-PART (1; 0% instances).


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