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nmod: nominal modifier

Nominal modifiers are inflected nominals which modify most commonly a verb or a noun phrase. They can occur alone or together with an postposition in an postpositional phrase. Both cases are analysed similarly, as semantically nominal modifiers and postpositional phrases are similar.

nmod is by far the most used relation in UD Kazakh.

Postpositional phrases:

Izafet construction:

Genitive nouns in the izafet construction get a special relation, nmod:poss, be they indefinite:

or definite:

Object of comparison:

Nouns in ablative case which depend on adjectives as object of comparison get nmod:comp:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal. There are 2 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:own, nmod:poss.

598 nodes (10%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

592 instances of nmod (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.26421404682274.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (419; 70% instances), NOUN-NOUN (54; 9% instances), VERB-PRON (34; 6% instances), VERB-PROPN (29; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (17; 3% instances), NOUN-PROPN (10; 2% instances), ADJ-PRON (9; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (6; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


nmod 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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