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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier, not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (otherwise it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause (a verbal predicate or a noun if the verb is omitted).

advcl covers the following typology of cases:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

3755 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2729 instances of advcl (73%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 8.8676431424767.

The following 38 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (2771; 74% instances), ADJ-VERB (313; 8% instances), NOUN-VERB (275; 7% instances), VERB-ADJ (120; 3% instances), VERB-NOUN (51; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (48; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (29; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (27; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (17; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (13; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (13; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (12; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (8; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (6; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (6; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (4; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (3; 0% instances), DET-VERB (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (3; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (3; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (2; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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