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discourse: discourse element

Discourse elements are interjections, exclamations or emoticons. They are attached to the main verb or predicative of the sentence with the discourse dependency type.

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The discourse label is also used for modal words, and the question word (ма):


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal.

46 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as discourse.

29 instances of discourse (63%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.56521739130435.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with discourse: VERB-PART (18; 39% instances), ADJ-PART (7; 15% instances), VERB-INTJ (7; 15% instances), ADJ-INTJ (5; 11% instances), NOUN-INTJ (2; 4% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 2% instances), AUX-INTJ (1; 2% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 2% instances), NOUN-PART (1; 2% instances), PROPN-PART (1; 2% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 2% instances), VERB-VERB (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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