cop
: copula
A copula is the relation between the complement of a copular verb and the copular verb essere (in Italian this is the only verb that can be a copula). The copula be is not treated as the head of a clause, but rather as the dependent of a lexical predicate, as exemplified below, which can be an adjective, a noun or a pronoun.
In predicative wh-constructions, the fronted wh-word is the head, and the copula is another cop
.
If the copula comes together another verbal auxiliaries (e.g. because of the tense), they are taken as dependents of the lexical predicate:
The verb essere is not always marked as copula, but can also be the main verb of the clause. This analysis is generally adopted when:
- the verb essere is used in presentational or existential constructions where it has an existential or locative meaning;
- the predicate is a prepositional phrase, in which case the nominal part of the prepositional phrase is the head of a nmod relation, with a few exception in case of idiomatic forms, such as in forma (in shape).
- the complement of the verb essere is a subordinate clause
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This relation is universal.
3032 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as cop
.
2419 instances of cop
(80%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.65798153034301.
The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop
: ADJ-VERB (1153; 38% instances), NOUN-VERB (1020; 34% instances), PRON-VERB (696; 23% instances), PROPN-VERB (68; 2% instances), VERB-VERB (34; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (32; 1% instances), NUM-VERB (23; 1% instances), X-VERB (3; 0% instances), ADJ-AUX (2; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (1; 0% instances).
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