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dobj: direct object

The dependency type dobj is used for (nominal) direct objects of the verb.

Direct objects are typically in “nominative” (unmarked, indefinite accusative) or “accusative” (marked, definite accusative), but may be in other cases (e.g. dative).

Another example:

A dative direct object:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of dobj: dobj:caus.

334 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

332 instances of dobj (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.53293413173653.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (279; 84% instances), VERB-PRON (32; 10% instances), VERB-PROPN (11; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (7; 2% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-AUX (1; 0% instances).


dobj 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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