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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a noun, in contrast to the advcl relation which is used for adverbial clauses that modify a predicate. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.

We use acl for:

Verbal adjectives that modify nouns:

This relation may be tagged with acl:relcl in the future, as it is the way in which Turkic languages do relative clauses.

Gerunds in genitive modifying a noun:

Fronted relative clauses with empty copula:

Conditional phrases with ‘болса’:

Secondary predication:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

23 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as acl.

22 instances of acl (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.39130434782609.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (18; 78% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 13% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 4% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 4% instances).


acl 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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