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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers of nouns or clausal predicates. nmod is typically a noun functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct, and often marked by a preposition using case.

Examples

Tá sé ráite ag tráchtairí áirithe `It is said by some commentators

Tá an Roinn ag obair le réimse tionscadal `The Department is working with a range of projects’

It is also used for attaching noun phrases, such as headings, to clauses:

TOGRA IONAID - Eolas a chur ar fáil ar fholúntais fostaíochta le FÁS `CENTRE PROJECT - To provide information on employment opportunities with FÁS.’

It is also used to label the attachment of augment pronouns to their nominal head:

Comharsain aoibhne ab ea iad `They were lovely neighbours’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal. There are 3 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:poss, nmod:prep, nmod:tmod.

2562 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

2307 instances of nmod (90%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.70725995316159.

The following 55 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: NOUN-NOUN (932; 36% instances), VERB-NOUN (842; 33% instances), ADJ-NOUN (116; 5% instances), NOUN-PROPN (100; 4% instances), ADP-NOUN (81; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (77; 3% instances), VERB-PART (68; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (63; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (30; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (21; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (21; 1% instances), NOUN-X (19; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (16; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (13; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (12; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (12; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (11; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (11; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (11; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (9; 0% instances), X-NOUN (7; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (6; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (6; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (6; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (5; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (5; 0% instances), VERB-X (5; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (4; 0% instances), X-NUM (4; 0% instances), ADP-X (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NUM-X (3; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (3; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (3; 0% instances), X-X (3; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (2; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), X-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADP (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances).


nmod 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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