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nsubj: nominal subject

The dependency type nsubj marks nominal subjects of a clause. Subjects are direct dependents of the main predicate of the clause, which may be a verb, noun or adjective.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

21135 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

20532 instances of nsubj (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.61268038798202.

The following 54 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-PRON (8151; 39% instances), VERB-NOUN (5940; 28% instances), VERB-PROPN (2211; 10% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1038; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (951; 4% instances), NOUN-NOUN (943; 4% instances), NOUN-PRON (790; 4% instances), ADJ-PRON (455; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (105; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (84; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (73; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (65; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (57; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (40; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (28; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (28; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (25; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (17; 0% instances), VERB-X (15; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (14; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (12; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (12; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (10; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (7; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (6; 0% instances), NOUN-X (6; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (5; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (5; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (4; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (4; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (2; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), SYM-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PART-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-X (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PRON (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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