nmod:prep
: prepositional pronouns
nmod:prep
, used for prepositional pronouns, is a UD Irish subtype of the nmod relation:
16 of the most common Irish simple prepositions can be inflected to mark pronominal objects. These are referred to as pronominal prepositions or prepositional pronouns. We regard these as playing nominal modifier roles instead of prepositional modifier roles. We introduce the language-specific label nmod:prep
so as not to lose information regarding the presence of the preposition.
Examples
agam “at me”; leis “with him”, uainn “from us”
D’inis mé di `I told her’
Is dóigh leis go bhfuil páirtíocht acu lena chéile `He believes that they have a partnership together’
Níl fhios agam `I don’t know’
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.
There are also 2 other language-specific subtypes of nmod
: nmod:poss, nmod:tmod.
469 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as nmod:prep
.
465 instances of nmod:prep
(99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.51599147121535.
The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:prep
: VERB-ADP (259; 55% instances), NOUN-ADP (141; 30% instances), ADJ-ADP (47; 10% instances), ADV-ADP (6; 1% instances), ADP-ADP (4; 1% instances), PRON-ADP (3; 1% instances), PROPN-ADP (3; 1% instances), DET-ADP (2; 0% instances), X-ADP (2; 0% instances), CONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADP (1; 0% instances).