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nsubj: nominal subject

A nominal subject is a noun phrase which is the syntactic subject of a clause.

Examples

Rachaidh abhaile `She will go home’

In a copula construction, the nsubj is dependent on the predicate (in this case the noun réitigh ‘solution’).

Is réitigh sealadach iad `They are temporary solutions’

The head of an infinitival phrase can also be nsubj in a copula construction – in Irish, the infinitive verb form is a verbal noun.

Ar mhaith leat teach a cheannach ? ‘Would you like to buy a house?’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

1625 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

1408 instances of nsubj (87%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.62892307692308.

The following 45 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (644; 40% instances), VERB-PRON (415; 26% instances), VERB-PART (185; 11% instances), VERB-PROPN (105; 6% instances), ADJ-NOUN (56; 3% instances), NOUN-NOUN (55; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (37; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (22; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (11; 1% instances), VERB-X (9; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (8; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (7; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (5; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (5; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (5; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (4; 0% instances), X-NOUN (4; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (2; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (2; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-X (1; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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