nmod
: nominal modifier
The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).
nmod
is a noun (or noun phrase) functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. This means that it functionally corresponds to an adverbial when it attaches to a verb, adjective or other adverb. But when attaching to a noun, it corresponds to an attribute.
nmod
is used for nouns modified by a preposition.
The nmod
relation is also used for temporal modifiers expressed as nominals:
Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)
This relation is universal.
35838 nodes (12%) are attached to their parents as nmod
.
28423 instances of nmod
(79%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.14660416317875.
The following 80 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod
: VERB-NOUN (12033; 34% instances), NOUN-NOUN (8348; 23% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2404; 7% instances), NOUN-DET (2108; 6% instances), VERB-PROPN (1906; 5% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1735; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1715; 5% instances), VERB-PRON (1023; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (484; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (483; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (429; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (377; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (266; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (262; 1% instances), DET-NOUN (235; 1% instances), NOUN-ADP (225; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (221; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (193; 1% instances), VERB-DET (151; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (145; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (137; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (109; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (86; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (76; 0% instances), DET-PRON (66; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (64; 0% instances), ADV-ADP (63; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (50; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (45; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (35; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (33; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (31; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (28; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (27; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (26; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (23; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (17; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (15; 0% instances), NUM-ADP (14; 0% instances), DET-ADP (12; 0% instances), DET-DET (11; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (9; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (9; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (8; 0% instances), PRON-DET (7; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (7; 0% instances), NUM-DET (6; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (5; 0% instances), NOUN-X (5; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (5; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (5; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (4; 0% instances), DET-NUM (4; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (4; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), VERB-X (4; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADV-DET (3; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (3; 0% instances), SCONJ-DET (3; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (2; 0% instances), INTJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), ADP-DET (1; 0% instances), ADP-X (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), DET-X (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (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]