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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.

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Les gars , faites attention ! \n Guys , be careful !
vocative(faites, gars)
{
    "text": "Les gars , faites attention ! \n Guys , be careful ! ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-1-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 3 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T2", "token", [ [ 4, 8 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T3", "token", [ [ 9, 10 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T4", "token", [ [ 11, 17 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T5", "token", [ [ 18, 27 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T6", "token", [ [ 28, 29 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T8", "token", [ [ 32, 36 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T9", "token", [ [ 37, 38 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T10", "token", [ [ 39, 41 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T11", "token", [ [ 42, 49 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T12", "token", [ [ 50, 51 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-1-R1", "vocative", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T2" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "1" ]
}

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David , comment ça va ? \n David, how 's it going ?
vocative(va, David)
{
    "text": "David , comment ça va ? \n David, how 's it going ? ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-2-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 5 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T2", "token", [ [ 6, 7 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T3", "token", [ [ 8, 15 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T4", "token", [ [ 16, 18 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T5", "token", [ [ 19, 21 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T6", "token", [ [ 22, 23 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T8", "token", [ [ 26, 32 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T9", "token", [ [ 33, 36 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T10", "token", [ [ 37, 39 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T11", "token", [ [ 40, 42 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T12", "token", [ [ 43, 48 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T13", "token", [ [ 49, 50 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-2-R1", "vocative", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-2-T5" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-2-T1" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "2" ]
}

Note: the vocative relation is not currently annotated in the French data.

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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: VERB-PROPN (3; 75% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 25% instances).

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# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 1	fgColor:white
# visual-style 4	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 4	fgColor:white
# visual-style 4 1 vocative	color:blue
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	_	_
{
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T1", "PROPN", [ [ 0, 5 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T2", "PUNCT", [ [ 6, 7 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T3", "PRON", [ [ 8, 10 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T4", "VERB", [ [ 11, 15 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T5", "ADP", [ [ 16, 20 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T6", "DET", [ [ 21, 24 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T7", "NOUN", [ [ 25, 32 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-T8", "PUNCT", [ [ 33, 34 ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [ [ "embedded-3-S1-A1", "Number", "embedded-3-S1-T3", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A2", "Person", "embedded-3-S1-T3", "1" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A3", "PronType", "embedded-3-S1-T3", "Prs" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A4", "Mood", "embedded-3-S1-T4", "Ind" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A5", "Number", "embedded-3-S1-T4", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A6", "Person", "embedded-3-S1-T4", "1" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A7", "Tense", "embedded-3-S1-T4", "Pres" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A8", "VerbForm", "embedded-3-S1-T4", "Fin" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A9", "Gender", "embedded-3-S1-T6", "Masc" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A10", "Number", "embedded-3-S1-T6", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A11", "PronType", "embedded-3-S1-T6", "Prs" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A12", "Gender", "embedded-3-S1-T7", "Masc" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-A13", "Number", "embedded-3-S1-T7", "Sing" ] ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R0", "vocative", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T1" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R1", "punct", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T2" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R2", "nsubj", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T3" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R3", "root", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T0" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R4", "case", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T7" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T5" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R5", "nmod:poss", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T7" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T6" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R6", "nmod", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T7" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-S1-R7", "punct", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-S1-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-S1-T8" ] ] ]
    ],
    "comments": [ [ "embedded-3-S1-T1", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: Alice" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T2", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: ," ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T3", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: il" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T4", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: partir" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T5", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: dans" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T6", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: son" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T7", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: sommeil" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T8", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: ." ] ],
    "styles": [ [ "embedded-3-S1-T1", "bgColor", "blue" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T1", "fgColor", "white" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T4", "bgColor", "blue" ], [ "embedded-3-S1-T4", "fgColor", "white" ], [ [ "embedded-3-S1-T4", "embedded-3-S1-T1", "vocative" ], "color", "blue" ] ],
    "sentlabels": [ "3" ],
    "text": "Alice , je pars dans mon sommeil .",
    "error": false
}

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# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 1	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 6	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6 1 vocative	color:blue
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	_	_
{
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T1", "PROPN", [ [ 0, 9 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T2", "PUNCT", [ [ 10, 11 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T3", "PRON", [ [ 12, 14 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T4", "VERB", [ [ 15, 17 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T5", "DET", [ [ 18, 21 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T6", "NOUN", [ [ 22, 26 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T7", "PUNCT", [ [ 27, 28 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-T8", "PUNCT", [ [ 29, 30 ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [ [ "embedded-4-S1-A1", "Number", "embedded-4-S1-T3", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A2", "Person", "embedded-4-S1-T3", "2" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A3", "PronType", "embedded-4-S1-T3", "Prs" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A4", "Mood", "embedded-4-S1-T4", "Ind" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A5", "Number", "embedded-4-S1-T4", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A6", "Person", "embedded-4-S1-T4", "2" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A7", "Tense", "embedded-4-S1-T4", "Pres" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A8", "VerbForm", "embedded-4-S1-T4", "Fin" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A9", "Definite", "embedded-4-S1-T5", "Ind" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A10", "Gender", "embedded-4-S1-T5", "Fem" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A11", "Number", "embedded-4-S1-T5", "Sing" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A12", "PronType", "embedded-4-S1-T5", "Art" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A13", "Gender", "embedded-4-S1-T6", "Fem" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-A14", "Number", "embedded-4-S1-T6", "Sing" ] ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R0", "vocative", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T1" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R1", "punct", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T1" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T2" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R2", "nsubj", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T3" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R3", "cop", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T4" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R4", "det", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T5" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R5", "root", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T0" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R6", "punct", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T7" ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-S1-R7", "punct", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-S1-T6" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-S1-T8" ] ] ]
    ],
    "comments": [ [ "embedded-4-S1-T1", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: Chauchard" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T2", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: ," ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T3", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: il" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T4", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: être" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T5", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: un" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T6", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: bête" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T7", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: !" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T8", "AnnotatorNotes", "Lemma: \"" ] ],
    "styles": [ [ "embedded-4-S1-T1", "bgColor", "blue" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T1", "fgColor", "white" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T6", "bgColor", "blue" ], [ "embedded-4-S1-T6", "fgColor", "white" ], [ [ "embedded-4-S1-T6", "embedded-4-S1-T1", "vocative" ], "color", "blue" ] ],
    "sentlabels": [ "4" ],
    "text": "Chauchard , tu es une bête ! \"",
    "error": false
}

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