vocative: vocative
The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
Les gars , faites attention ! \n Guys , be careful !
vocative(faites, gars)
David , comment ça va ? \n David, how 's it going ?
vocative(va, David)
Note: the vocative relation is not currently annotated in the French data.
Treebank Statistics (UD_French)
This relation is universal.
4 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.
3 instances of vocative (75%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.75.
The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (3; 75% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 25% instances).
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1 Alice Alice PROPN _ _ 4 vocative _ _
2 , , PUNCT _ _ 4 punct _ _
3 je il PRON _ Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _
4 pars partir VERB _ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _
5 dans dans ADP _ _ 7 case _ _
6 mon son DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _
7 sommeil sommeil NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _
8 . . PUNCT _ _ 4 punct _ _
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1 Chauchard Chauchard PROPN _ _ 6 vocative _ _
2 , , PUNCT _ _ 1 punct _ _
3 tu il PRON _ Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _
4 es être VERB _ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _
5 une un DET _ Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art 6 det _ _
6 bête bête NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
7 ! ! PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
8 " " PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ _
vocative in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]