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nsubj: nominal subject

The dependency type nsubj marks nominal subjects of the non-copular clause.

Eeva tuli töistä . \n Eeva came from_work .
nsubj(tuli-2, Eeva-1)
nmod(tuli-2, töistä-3)
punct(tuli-2, .-4)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nsubj: nsubj:cop.

11866 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

9706 instances of nsubj (82%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.91538850497219.

The following 21 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (6943; 59% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (2860; 24% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (1882; 16% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (74; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (34; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NUM (20; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/SYM (19; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/X (11; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/AUX-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/AUX-fi-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/CONJ-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Se	se	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	sisäinen	sisäinen	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	3	amod	_	_
3	lapseni	lapsi	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1	6	nsubj	7:nsubj	_
4	ei	ei	VERB	V	Negative=Neg|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	neg	_	_
5	vaan	vaan	ADV	Adv	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	suostu	suostua	VERB	V	Connegative=Yes|Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	katoamaan	kadota	VERB	V	Case=Ill|InfForm=3|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	“	“	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mä	minä	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Style=Coll	3	nsubj	_	_
3	painan	painaa	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mä	minä	PRON	Pron	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Style=Coll	6	nsubj	_	_
6	painan	painaa	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	”	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Minttu	Minttu	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	muuten	muuten	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	väitti	väittää	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
4	aika	aika	ADV	Adv	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hartaasti	hartaasti	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	tätä	tämä	PRON	Pron	Case=Par|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	paitaa	paita	NOUN	N	Case=Par|Number=Sing	3	dobj	_	_
8	hameeksi	hame	NOUN	N	Case=Tra|Number=Sing	3	xcomp:ds	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nsubj: nsubj:cop.

13033 nodes (8%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

10560 instances of nsubj (81%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.7716565641065.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (6846; 53% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (4236; 33% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PROPN (1620; 12% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (241; 2% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NUM (24; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (9; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/X (9; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (7; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/X (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/INTJ-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	aurinko	aurinko	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	armas	armas	ADJ	A,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	2	punct	_	_
4	kuivas	kuivata	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Coll|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
5	satehen	sade	NOUN	N,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Style=Coll	4	dobj	_	_

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1	Ne	ne	PRON	Pron,Dem,Pl,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meni	mennä	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
3	uimaa	uida	VERB	V,Act,InfMa,Ill	Case=Ill|InfForm=3|Style=Coll|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	2	xcomp	_	Alt=xcomp

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1	Pekka	pekka	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	antaa	antaa	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
3	lisää	lisää	ADV	Adv	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ruokaa	ruoka	NOUN	N,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	4	punct	_	_


nsubj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]