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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of a noun is a nominal immediately following the first noun that serves to define or modify that noun. It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.

Sam , mon frère , est arrivé \n Sam , my brother , arrived
appos(Sam, frère)
Appelation d'origine contrôlée  ( AOC )
appos(Appelation, AOC)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

6698 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as appos.

6531 instances of appos (98%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.49492385786802.

The following 56 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (2875; 43% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (1509; 23% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (770; 11% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PROPN (558; 8% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (176; 3% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (139; 2% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/NOUN (93; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NUM (81; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/SYM (57; 1% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (50; 1% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/NOUN (35; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/VERB (34; 1% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/X (31; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (28; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PRON (27; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (25; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (22; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (21; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NUM (19; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/NOUN (18; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PROPN (18; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PROPN (9; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/NUM (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/PROPN (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/PROPN (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (6; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/X (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/X (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/X (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/X (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/INTJ-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cap	Cap	PROPN	_	_	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Borda	Borda	PROPN	_	_	2	name	_	_
4	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
8	l'	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	île	île	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Kangourou	Kangourou	PROPN	_	_	9	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_
12	en	en	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	_
13	Australie	Australie	PROPN	_	_	9	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Côte	côte	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	de	de	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	_
3	Bellevue	Bellevue	PROPN	_	_	1	nmod	_	_
4	Catégorie	catégorie	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	_	_	4	nummod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_
7	109,5	109,5	NUM	_	_	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Aviator	Aviator	PROPN	_	_	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_
3	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	film	film	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	sur	sur	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vie	vie	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	_	_	7	nmod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_


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