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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl is used for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a noun, including cases of secondary predication. Note that in French relative clauses get assigned a specific relation acl:relcl, a subtype of acl.

Non-relative clausal dependents of nouns are limited to complement clauses with a subset of nouns like fait (fact). We analyze them as acl (parallel to the analysis of this class as “content clauses” in Huddleston and Pullum 2002).

The acl relation is also used for secondary predicates modifying a nominal:


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

7109 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as acl.

6711 instances of acl (94%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.80686453790969.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (4256; 60% instances), VERB-VERB (1751; 25% instances), PROPN-VERB (516; 7% instances), PRON-VERB (254; 4% instances), ADJ-VERB (210; 3% instances), NOUN-ADJ (47; 1% instances), NUM-VERB (20; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (9; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (8; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (7; 0% instances), X-VERB (5; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (4; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (3; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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