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punct: punctuation

The dependency type punct is used to mark punctuation. The dependent is the punctuation symbol, and the governor is the element which the punctuation symbol delimits. For instance, with coordination, the last coordinated element is the head of all punct dependencies in the coordination.

Coordination and parataxis:

The punctuation attaches to the governor.

Adverbial clauses:

The punctuation attaches to the head of the adverbial phrase.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal.

1272 nodes (20%) are attached to their parents as punct.

885 instances of punct (70%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.45125786163522.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (716; 56% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (243; 19% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (102; 8% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (61; 5% instances), NUM-PUNCT (52; 4% instances), PRON-PUNCT (24; 2% instances), ADV-PUNCT (17; 1% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (15; 1% instances), VERB-PART (13; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (8; 1% instances), PRON-PART (4; 0% instances), ADJ-PART (3; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (3; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), ADV-PART (2; 0% instances), INTJ-PART (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), NUM-PART (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (1; 0% instances).


punct 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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