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discourse: discourse element

This is used for interjections and other discourse particles and elements (which are not clearly linked to the structure of the sentence, except in an expressive way). In Italian the use of discourse is attested for interjections (or nouns used as interjections) only, but is also generally recommended for emoticons or elements POS tagged as SYM not elsewhere classified.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

61 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as discourse.

49 instances of discourse (80%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 5.13114754098361.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with discourse: VERB-INTJ (38; 62% instances), NOUN-INTJ (6; 10% instances), ADV-INTJ (5; 8% instances), ADJ-INTJ (3; 5% instances), PROPN-INTJ (3; 5% instances), PRON-INTJ (2; 3% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 2% instances), ADJ-X (1; 2% instances), INTJ-INTJ (1; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 2% instances).


discourse in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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