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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.

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


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: PROPN-NOUN (295; 33% instances), NOUN-NOUN (261; 30% instances), NOUN-PROPN (203; 23% instances), PRON-NOUN (30; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (18; 2% instances), PRON-PROPN (16; 2% instances), PROPN-PRON (15; 2% instances), NOUN-PRON (12; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (6; 1% instances), X-NOUN (5; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PROPN-X (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-X (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-X (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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