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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes temporal, consequence, conditional and purpose clauses. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the head is the main predicate of the clause.

Examples

Nuair a bhí siad ag teacht ar ais, chonaic siad é ‘When they were coming back, they saw it’

imríonn siad mar faoi is féidir leo, is dóigh liom go bhfillfidh siad ar Staid Semple ‘If they play as well as they can, I believe they will return to Semple Stadium’

Ní thugtar íocaíochtaí mura n-iarrtar iad `Payments are not given if they are not asked for’

Ach nuair a bhíodar ag dul aníos casadh mairnéalach leo `But when they were going down, they met sailors’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

299 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

245 instances of advcl (82%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 11.1705685618729.

The following 30 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (152; 51% instances), NOUN-VERB (29; 10% instances), VERB-NOUN (20; 7% instances), SCONJ-VERB (16; 5% instances), ADJ-VERB (14; 5% instances), ADP-VERB (10; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (8; 3% instances), VERB-PRON (7; 2% instances), CONJ-VERB (5; 2% instances), PRON-VERB (5; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (4; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (3; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (2; 1% instances), SCONJ-ADJ (2; 1% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (2; 1% instances), X-VERB (2; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances).


advcl 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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