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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of a noun is a nominal immediately following the first noun that serves to define or modify that noun. It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations.

una società italo libica , la Gatoil
appos(società, Gatoil)
la ragazza , figlia dei custodi del caseggiato dove abita
appos(ragazza, figlia)
" Mondo Giusto " , una organizzazione non governativa
appos(Mondo, organizzazione)
una giovane turista , Tiziana Amone di 20 anni
appos(turista, Tiziana)

In case of more than one appositive nominal, all nouns should be marked as modifying the first noun, rather than being chained:

due ordigni , il primo destinato a Hiroshima ; il secondo , tre giorni dopo , a Nagasaki .
appos(ordigni, primo)
appos(ordigni, secondo)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

882 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos.

881 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.89795918367347.

The following 22 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/NOUN (295; 33% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NOUN (261; 30% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PROPN (203; 23% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/NOUN (30; 3% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PROPN (18; 2% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/PROPN (16; 2% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PRON (15; 2% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PRON (12; 1% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/NOUN (6; 1% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/NOUN (5; 1% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/X (3; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/X (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/X (1; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Diefenbach	Diefenbach	PROPN	SP	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	1	punct	_	_
3	il	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pittore	pittore	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	nudo	nudo	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	La	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	politica	politica	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	di	di	ADP	E	_	5	case	_	_
4	i	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cetnici	cetnico	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
7	la	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pulizia	pulizia	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	etnica	etnico	ADJ	A	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
11	è	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	il	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	genocidio	genocidio	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	13	punct	_	_

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1	Veniva	venire	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	da	da	ADP	E	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	me	PRON	PE	Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	questa	questo	DET	DD	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pidiessina	pidiessino	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	tremenda	tremendo	ADJ	A	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	5	punct	_	_
8	la	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Alberta	Alberta	PROPN	SP	_	5	appos	_	_
10	De	De	PROPN	SP	_	9	name	_	_
11	Simone	Simone	PROPN	SP	_	9	name	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_


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