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nsubj: nominal subject

The dependency type nsubj marks nominal subjects a clause.

Another example:

Note that the governor may not always be a verb, in copula predication, non-verbal predicates are possible:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal.

581 nodes (9%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

579 instances of nsubj (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.53700516351119.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (282; 49% instances), VERB-PRON (73; 13% instances), ADJ-NOUN (55; 9% instances), VERB-PROPN (47; 8% instances), NOUN-NOUN (42; 7% instances), NOUN-PRON (15; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (9; 2% instances), ADJ-PRON (8; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (8; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (6; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (5; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (5; 1% instances), ADV-PROPN (4; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (4; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (3; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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