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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.


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: VERB-VERB (30; 48% instances), NOUN-VERB (15; 24% instances), ADJ-VERB (13; 21% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 2% instances), NOUN-AUX (1; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 2% instances).


csubj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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