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punct: punctuation

This element is used for any piece of punctuation in a clause. The last punctuation mark of the sentence (usually a full stop or interrogative/exclamation point) always depends on the root; commas, apexes and punctuation elements depend on the head of the clause, or the complement, they refer to. In general, tokens with the relation punct always attach to content words (except in cases of ellipsis) and can never have dependents on their own.

Punctuation marks separating coordinated units must be all attached to the first conjunct.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

33296 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as punct.

30138 instances of punct (91%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.15785679961557.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (15377; 46% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (9652; 29% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (2830; 8% instances), NUM-PUNCT (1696; 5% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (1681; 5% instances), PRON-PUNCT (1132; 3% instances), ADV-PUNCT (597; 2% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (77; 0% instances), X-PUNCT (72; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (57; 0% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (56; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (42; 0% instances), SCONJ-PUNCT (15; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (5; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (3; 0% instances), SYM-PUNCT (3; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (1; 0% instances).


punct 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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