csubj:cleft
: relative clause modifier
Irish cleft constructions use a copula and are analysed in line with other copular construction: COP PRED SUBJ. In contrast to English, Irish clefts are much less restrictive with regards to the type of element that can be fronted: nouns, prepositional phrases, adverbial phrases, adjectives and verbal nouns.
Examples
Nominal fronting
Is leabhar a thug sí dom ‘It is a book that she gave me’
Adverbial fronting
Is laistigh de bhliain a déanfar é ‘It is within a year that it will be done’
Prepositional phrase fronting
Is sa pháirc a chonaic mé é ‘It is in the park that I saw him’
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of csubj.
There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of csubj
: csubj:cop.
133 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as csubj:cleft
.
132 instances of csubj:cleft
(99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.12781954887218.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj:cleft
: NOUN-VERB (43; 32% instances), ADP-VERB (37; 28% instances), PRON-VERB (20; 15% instances), VERB-VERB (10; 8% instances), ADJ-VERB (7; 5% instances), PROPN-VERB (7; 5% instances), ADV-VERB (6; 5% instances), X-VERB (2; 2% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 1% instances).