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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of an NP is an NP immediately to the right of the first NP that serves to define or modify that NP. It also includes parenthesized examples.

Examples:

Tá gearán déanta ag Unison, ceardchumann lucht na mbónaí bána, leis an gCoimisiún `Unison, the workers’ trade union, have made a complaint to the Commission’

Tá gearán déanta ag Unison , ceardchumann lucht na mbónaí bána , leis an gCoimisiún \n Is complaint made by Unison , trade_union group the collars white  , with the Commission
appos(Unison, ceardchumann)

Chas m’athair air sa tábhairne, O’ Shea’s i nDomhnach Broc `My father met him in the pub, O’ Shea’s in Donnybrook’

Chas m' athair air sa tábhairne , O' Shea's i nDomhnach Broc \n Met my father on him in_the pub , O' Shea's in Donnybrook []
appos(tábhairne, Shea's)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

108 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos.

108 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.44444444444444.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/NOUN (37; 34% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/PROPN (23; 21% instances), ga-pos/PROPN-ga-pos/NOUN (18; 17% instances), ga-pos/X-ga-pos/NOUN (10; 9% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/X (6; 6% instances), ga-pos/PROPN-ga-pos/PROPN (5; 5% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/PRON (2; 2% instances), ga-pos/PRON-ga-pos/NOUN (2; 2% instances), ga-pos/CONJ-ga-pos/PRON (1; 1% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/NUM (1; 1% instances), ga-pos/NOUN-ga-pos/VERB (1; 1% instances), ga-pos/PROPN-ga-pos/ADJ (1; 1% instances), ga-pos/X-ga-pos/PROPN (1; 1% instances).

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1	Post	post	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	Num	_	1	nummod	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	Punct	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Feidhmeannach	feidhmeannach	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	Riaracháin	riarachán	NOUN	Noun	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Níl	bí	VERB	PresInd	Mood=Ind|Negative=Neg|Tense=Pres	0	root	_	_
2	fágtha	fágtha	ADJ	Adj	VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp:pred	_	_
3	den	de	ADP	Art	Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	case	_	_
4	seandream	dream	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ach	ach	SCONJ	Subord	_	1	mark:prt	_	_
6	an	an	DET	Art	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ceannaire	ceannaire	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Harney	Harney	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	name	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	12	punct	_	_
12	agus	agus	CONJ	Coord	_	7	cc	_	_
13	Liz	Liz	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	O'	o'	PART	Pat	PartType=Pat	13	name	_	_
15	Donnell	Donnell	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	name	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	'	'	PUNCT	Punct	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	McMahon	McMahon	PROPN	Noun	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	name	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punct	_	5	punct	_	_
5	duine	duine	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	a	a	PART	Vb	PartType=Vb|PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bhfuil	bí	VERB	PresInd	Form=Ecl|Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	baint	baint	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	aici	ag	ADP	Prep	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3	7	nmod:prep	_	_
10	le	le	ADP	Simp	_	11	case	_	_
11	healaín	ealaín	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Form=HPref|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	phobail	pobal	NOUN	Noun	Case=Gen|Form=Len|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
13	i	i	ADP	Simp	_	14	case	_	_
14	Luimneach	Luimneach	PROPN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_


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