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csubj: clausal subject

A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb.

Ce qu'il dit m' embête . \n What he says bothers me .
csubj(embête, dit)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

62 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as csubj.

36 instances of csubj (58%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 7.40322580645161.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (30; 48% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/VERB (15; 24% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/VERB (13; 21% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (1; 2% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/AUX (1; 2% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 2% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 2% instances).

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1	«	«	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Être	être	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
3	c'	ce	PRON	_	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	être	être	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	valeur	valeur	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	d'	de	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
9	une	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	variable	variable	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	liée	lier	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Aller	aller	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
2	dans	dans	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	_
3	ce	ce	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	tout	tout	ADV	_	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	simplement	simplement	ADV	_	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	amod	_	_
10	plaisir	plaisir	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	_	10	punct	_	_

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1	Seul	seul	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	amod	_	_
2	bémol	bémol	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
4	trouver	trouver	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
5	une	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	dobj	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	_
8	parking	parking	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	très	très	ADV	_	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	difficile	difficile	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	_	11	punct	_	_


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