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SCONJ: subordinating conjunction

Definition

A subordinating conjunction is a conjunction that links constructions by making one of them a constituent of the other. The subordinating conjunction typically marks the incorporated constituent which has the status of a (subordinate) clause.

We recognize these two subclasses as subordinating conjunctions:

For coordinating conjunctions see CONJ.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 42 SCONJ lemmas (0%), 51 SCONJ types (0%) and 3027 SCONJ tokens (1%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of SCONJ is: 11 in number of lemmas, 12 in number of types and 13 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent SCONJ lemmas: che, se, quando, perché, come, mentre, qualora, dopo, purché, finché

The 10 most frequent SCONJ types: che, se, quando, perché, come, mentre, qualora, dopo, purché, finché

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: che (PRON 2306, SCONJ 1263, DET 251, ADP 33, CONJ 28), se (SCONJ 691, PRON 46, ADV 3, NOUN 1, CONJ 1), quando (SCONJ 346, ADV 212, PRON 2, CONJ 1), perché (SCONJ 197, ADV 30, NOUN 2), come (ADP 490, ADV 244, SCONJ 182, CONJ 3, PRON 1, VERB 1), mentre (SCONJ 114, CONJ 13), dopo (ADP 237, ADV 46, SCONJ 33, NOUN 1), finché (SCONJ 17, ADV 1), sebbene (SCONJ 15, CONJ 3), perciò (ADV 23, SCONJ 8)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: che (PRON 2284, SCONJ 1255, DET 95, ADP 33, CONJ 28), se (SCONJ 459, PRON 72, ADV 2, NOUN 1, CONJ 1), quando (SCONJ 264, ADV 6, PRON 2, CONJ 1), perché (SCONJ 171, ADV 15, NOUN 2), come (ADP 467, SCONJ 153, ADV 68, CONJ 3, PRON 1), mentre (SCONJ 101, CONJ 13), dopo (ADP 179, ADV 45, SCONJ 25, NOUN 1), sebbene (SCONJ 9, CONJ 3), perciò (SCONJ 8, ADV 7), dove (ADV 173, SCONJ 5, PRON 3)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of SCONJ is 1.214286 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.488836).

The 1st highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “perché”: ch’, perchè, perché.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “poiché”: chè, ché, poiché.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “affinché”: affinchè, affinché.

SCONJ does not occur with any features.

Relations

SCONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 10 different relations: it-dep/mark (2847; 94% instances), it-dep/mwe (136; 4% instances), it-dep/cc (14; 0% instances), it-dep/advmod (9; 0% instances), it-dep/conj (6; 0% instances), it-dep/nmod (6; 0% instances), it-dep/dobj (3; 0% instances), it-dep/root (3; 0% instances), it-dep/case (2; 0% instances), it-dep/expl (1; 0% instances)

Parents of SCONJ nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: VERB (2432; 80% instances), ADJ (247; 8% instances), NOUN (181; 6% instances), ADV (90; 3% instances), ADP (32; 1% instances), PRON (22; 1% instances), PROPN (11; 0% instances), SCONJ (6; 0% instances), ROOT (3; 0% instances), NUM (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)

2894 (96%) SCONJ nodes are leaves.

115 (4%) SCONJ nodes have one child.

8 (0%) SCONJ nodes have two children.

10 (0%) SCONJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a SCONJ node is 4.

Children of SCONJ nodes are attached using 10 different relations: it-dep/advmod (74; 46% instances), it-dep/case (43; 27% instances), it-dep/punct (15; 9% instances), it-dep/conj (9; 6% instances), it-dep/cc (7; 4% instances), it-dep/nmod (6; 4% instances), it-dep/mwe (5; 3% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (1; 1% instances), it-dep/advcl (1; 1% instances), it-dep/neg (1; 1% instances)

Children of SCONJ nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: ADV (85; 52% instances), ADP (35; 22% instances), PUNCT (15; 9% instances), CONJ (7; 4% instances), NOUN (6; 4% instances), SCONJ (6; 4% instances), VERB (5; 3% instances), ADJ (1; 1% instances), PRON (1; 1% instances), PROPN (1; 1% instances)


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