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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers of nouns or clausal predicates. nmod is a noun functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. In French, nmod is used for prepositional complements as well as for temporal complements not introduced by a preposition.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:poss.

60306 nodes (15%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

55612 instances of nmod (92%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.06722382515836.

The following 89 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: NOUN-NOUN (20651; 34% instances), VERB-NOUN (17662; 29% instances), NOUN-PROPN (7143; 12% instances), VERB-PROPN (3604; 6% instances), NOUN-NUM (2166; 4% instances), VERB-NUM (1904; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1554; 3% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1096; 2% instances), VERB-PRON (948; 2% instances), PROPN-NOUN (646; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (516; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (497; 1% instances), PROPN-NUM (260; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (176; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (153; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (134; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (133; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (104; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (100; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (93; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (85; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (62; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (61; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (52; 0% instances), NOUN-X (49; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (42; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (41; 0% instances), VERB-X (27; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (24; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (20; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (20; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (19; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (19; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (18; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (16; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (15; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (15; 0% instances), SYM-SYM (15; 0% instances), X-NOUN (15; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (14; 0% instances), SYM-NUM (12; 0% instances), SYM-PROPN (10; 0% instances), X-PROPN (9; 0% instances), SYM-PRON (8; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (6; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (4; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (4; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (4; 0% instances), INTJ-PRON (4; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (4; 0% instances), X-NUM (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-X (3; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (3; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (3; 0% instances), PROPN-X (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (2; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (2; 0% instances), INTJ-NUM (2; 0% instances), INTJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (2; 0% instances), PRON-X (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADP-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-SYM (1; 0% instances), DET-ADV (1; 0% instances), DET-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-SYM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-PART (1; 0% instances), X-ADJ (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).


nmod 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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