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CONJ: coordinating conjunction

Definition

A coordinating conjunction is a word that links words or larger constituents without syntactically subordinating one to the other and expresses a semantic relationship between them.

Examples

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 13 CONJ lemmas (0%), 16 CONJ types (0%) and 10784 CONJ tokens (3%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of CONJ is: 14 in number of lemmas, 15 in number of types and 10 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent CONJ lemmas: og, men, eller, både, for, så, enten, samt, hverken, verken

The 10 most frequent CONJ types: og, men, eller, både, for, så, enten, samt, hverken, verken

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: og (CONJ 7977, X 3, PART 1, ADV 1), men (CONJ 1606, X 1), eller (CONJ 590, X 4), for (ADP 3710, ADV 148, CONJ 99, X 7), (ADV 832, CONJ 90, SCONJ 17, VERB 2), and (X 20, CONJ 1, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: og (CONJ 7570, PART 5, X 3, ADV 1, ADP 1), men (CONJ 889, ADP 1, X 1), eller (CONJ 551, X 4), for (ADP 3543, ADV 143, CONJ 44, X 7), (ADV 737, VERB 91, CONJ 60, SCONJ 16), å (PART 4246, CONJ 4, X 4, AUX 1, ADP 1, INTJ 1), and (X 20, NOUN 1, CONJ 1), med (ADP 3061, X 3, CONJ 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of CONJ is 1.230769 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “eller”: elle, eller.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “men”: med, men.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “og”: og, å.

CONJ does not occur with any features.

Relations

CONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 8 different relations: cc (10715; 99% instances), name (46; 0% instances), conj (8; 0% instances), compound (6; 0% instances), root (5; 0% instances), remnant (2; 0% instances), goeswith (1; 0% instances), nmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of CONJ nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: VERB (3918; 36% instances), NOUN (3808; 35% instances), ADJ (1470; 14% instances), PROPN (990; 9% instances), PRON (186; 2% instances), ADP (141; 1% instances), ADV (108; 1% instances), NUM (80; 1% instances), DET (54; 1% instances), CONJ (7; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), INTJ (5; 0% instances), ROOT (5; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

10751 (100%) CONJ nodes are leaves.

26 (0%) CONJ nodes have one child.

5 (0%) CONJ nodes have two children.

2 (0%) CONJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a CONJ node is 8.

Children of CONJ nodes are attached using 9 different relations: punct (30; 63% instances), conj (6; 13% instances), compound (5; 10% instances), advmod (2; 4% instances), cop (1; 2% instances), expl (1; 2% instances), nmod (1; 2% instances), parataxis (1; 2% instances), remnant (1; 2% instances)

Children of CONJ nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: PUNCT (30; 63% instances), CONJ (7; 15% instances), SYM (5; 10% instances), VERB (2; 4% instances), ADJ (1; 2% instances), ADV (1; 2% instances), NOUN (1; 2% instances), PRON (1; 2% instances)


CONJ in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]