vocative: vocative modifier
The dependency type vocative is used for vocatives, that is,
expressions where someone is being addressed. The governor of the
dependency is the main predicate of the clause where the addressing
occurs.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)
This relation is universal.
106 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
81 instances of vocative (76%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.77358490566038.
The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-NOUN (67; 63% instances), VERB-PROPN (17; 16% instances), ADJ-NOUN (6; 6% instances), NOUN-NOUN (6; 6% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 3% instances), ADV-NOUN (2; 2% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2; 2% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 1% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)
This relation is universal.
159 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
107 instances of vocative (67%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.55345911949686.
The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-NOUN (56; 35% instances), VERB-PROPN (50; 31% instances), VERB-PRON (24; 15% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 3% instances), ADJ-PROPN (3; 2% instances), INTJ-NOUN (3; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (3; 2% instances), PRON-PROPN (3; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-PROPN (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 1% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 1% instances), PART-PRON (1; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 1% instances), X-PROPN (1; 1% instances), X-X (1; 1% instances).
vocative in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]