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xcomp: open clausal complement

An open clausal complement (xcomp) of a verb or an adjective is a predicative or clausal complement without its own subject. The reference of the subject is necessarily determined by an argument external to the xcomp. This is often referred to as obligatory control.

In Norwegian xcomp is used for infinitival clauses

This relation is also used for cases of obligatory secondary predication

xcomp is also used for copula-like verbs such as bli “become”, kalle “call”, hete “named” in Norwegian.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

This relation is universal.

4015 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as xcomp.

3942 instances of xcomp (98%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.95566625155666.

The following 37 pairs of parts of speech are connected with xcomp: VERB-VERB (1289; 32% instances), VERB-ADJ (1235; 31% instances), VERB-NOUN (1018; 25% instances), NOUN-NOUN (98; 2% instances), VERB-ADV (61; 2% instances), VERB-PROPN (54; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (46; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (40; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (35; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (28; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (22; 1% instances), VERB-DET (14; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (9; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (6; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (6; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (5; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (5; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (5; 0% instances), VERB-X (5; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (2; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances).


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