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acl:relcl: relative clause

This language-specific relation is used for relative clauses in Norwegian and the acl:relcl relation is assigned to the main predicate of the relative clause. Relative clauses modify a nominal element and are often initiated by the relative pronoun som “that” which is assigned a nominal relation to the main predicate of the relative clause.

The relative pronoun may be omitted when it stands in a non-subject relation to the predicate of the relative clause:

Note that due to the analysis of the copula construction (cop), the main predicate of a relative clause may also be an adjective or even a noun:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of acl.

4317 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl:relcl.

4314 instances of acl:relcl (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.60481816075979.

The following 35 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl:relcl: NOUN-VERB (2644; 61% instances), PRON-VERB (728; 17% instances), PROPN-VERB (253; 6% instances), NOUN-ADJ (194; 4% instances), ADJ-VERB (131; 3% instances), NOUN-NOUN (80; 2% instances), PRON-ADJ (57; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (41; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (37; 1% instances), DET-VERB (32; 1% instances), NUM-VERB (25; 1% instances), PROPN-ADJ (15; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (14; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (10; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (8; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (7; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (5; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (5; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PRON-DET (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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