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compound: compound

UD Irish uses the compound relation for noun compounding. In Irish, when two nouns are compounded, the second is in the genitive case. Compounds can denote ownership or an attribute.

Examples

Attributive:

Oifig an Phoist `Post Office’ (lit. Office the Post)

roimh teacht na traenach ‘before the train’s arrival’

Titles:

Reflexive Pronoun: féin

Similar to the emphatic pronoun self in English, e.g. himself, themselves.

Ownership:

It can also translate as ownership, yet the possessive pronoun will also be present in those constructions using féin:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of compound: compound:prt.

1600 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as compound.

1502 instances of compound (94%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.8225.

The following 44 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound: NOUN-NOUN (1012; 63% instances), NOUN-PROPN (196; 12% instances), PROPN-PROPN (107; 7% instances), PROPN-NOUN (38; 2% instances), NOUN-ADP (28; 2% instances), NOUN-PRON (27; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (24; 2% instances), NOUN-X (21; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (21; 1% instances), ADP-PRON (15; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (14; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (14; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (12; 1% instances), ADP-NOUN (7; 0% instances), X-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (4; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (4; 0% instances), X-PROPN (4; 0% instances), X-X (4; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (3; 0% instances), PROPN-X (3; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), DET-ADP (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-X (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances).


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