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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.


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: NOUN-PROPN (2875; 43% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1509; 23% instances), PROPN-NOUN (770; 11% instances), PROPN-PROPN (558; 8% instances), NOUN-X (176; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (139; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (93; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (81; 1% instances), NOUN-SYM (57; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (50; 1% instances), X-NOUN (35; 1% instances), NOUN-VERB (34; 1% instances), PROPN-X (31; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (28; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (27; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (25; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (22; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (21; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (19; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (18; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (18; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (9; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (9; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (8; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (8; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (8; 0% instances), X-PROPN (8; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (6; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (5; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (4; 0% instances), ADJ-X (4; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (3; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (3; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (3; 0% instances), VERB-X (3; 0% instances), X-X (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-X (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (2; 0% instances), SYM-SYM (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (2; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-INTJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-ADV (1; 0% instances), X-NUM (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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