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root: root

The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A dummy node “ROOT” is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with “0”, since the indices of real words in the sentence start at 1.

Example

thugtar íocaíochtaí mura n-iarrtar iad `Payments are not made if they are not requested’

ROOT Ní thugtar íocaíochtaí mura n-iarrtar iad \n ROOT Not given payments if_not requested them 
root(ROOT, thugtar)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

1020 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as root.

1020 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.3843137254902.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/VERB (655; 64% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/NOUN (166; 16% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/ADJ (60; 6% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/ADP (36; 4% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/PRON (36; 4% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/PROPN (33; 3% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/ADV (12; 1% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/X (10; 1% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/CONJ (4; 0% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/PUNCT (3; 0% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), ga-pos/ROOT-ga-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Seo	seo	VERB	Cop	PronType=Dem|VerbForm=Cop	0	root	_	_
2	an	an	DET	Art	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	xcomp:pred	_	_
4	a	a	PART	Vb	PartType=Vb|PronType=Rel	5	dobj	_	_
5	chonaic	feic	VERB	VTI	Form=Len|Mood=Ind|Tense=Past	1	csubj:cleft	_	_
6	an	an	DET	Art	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bhean	bean	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Tabharfadsa	tabharfads	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	náire	náire	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	_
3	fén	faoi	ADP	Art	Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	case	_	_
4	bpoll	poll	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Form=Ecl|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	dóibh	do	ADP	Prep	Number=Plur|Person=3	1	nmod:prep	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Ba	is	VERB	Cop	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Cop	2	cop	_	_
2	léir	léir	ADJ	Adj	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	dó	do	ADP	Prep	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	nmod:prep	_	_
4	misneach	misneach	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	agus	agus	CONJ	Coord	_	4	cc	_	_
6	dúshlán	dúshlán	NOUN	Noun	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	céadach	céadach	ADJ	Adj	Case=Com|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
8	na	na	DET	Art	Case=Gen|Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	seacht	seacht	NUM	Num	NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	dtúr	túr	NOUN	Noun	Case=Gen|Form=Ecl|Gender=Masc|NounType=Weak|Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_


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