appos
: appositional modifier
An appositional modifier of a noun is a nominal immediately following the first noun that serves to define or modify that noun (aposto). It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures. This relation is universal.
In case of more than one appositive nominal, all nouns should be marked as modifying the first noun, rather than being chained:
Note however that nested apposition cannot be completely excluded. It may occur in combination with coordination:
appos is also used to link key-value pairs in addresses, signatures, etc. (see also the list label):
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)
This relation is universal.
586 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as appos
.
583 instances of appos
(99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 5.60238907849829.
The following 33 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos
: NOUN-PROPN (316; 54% instances), NOUN-NOUN (106; 18% instances), PROPN-NOUN (39; 7% instances), NOUN-VERB (21; 4% instances), NOUN-ADJ (13; 2% instances), PROPN-PROPN (12; 2% instances), ADJ-PROPN (11; 2% instances), NUM-NOUN (7; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (6; 1% instances), PROPN-ADJ (6; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (5; 1% instances), VERB-PROPN (5; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (4; 1% instances), DET-NOUN (3; 1% instances), NUM-PROPN (3; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (2; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-X (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-Bosque)
This relation is universal.
3405 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos
.
3397 instances of appos
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.88751835535977.
The following 38 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos
: NOUN-PROPN (1374; 40% instances), NOUN-NOUN (623; 18% instances), PROPN-NOUN (555; 16% instances), PROPN-PROPN (501; 15% instances), PROPN-NUM (83; 2% instances), NOUN-NUM (78; 2% instances), NOUN-DET (36; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (19; 1% instances), NOUN-SYM (18; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (17; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (12; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (12; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (10; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (10; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (9; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (7; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (5; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (4; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), NUM-DET (3; 0% instances), PRON-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (2; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (2; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SYM-DET (1; 0% instances), SYM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)
This relation is universal.
6082 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as appos
.
6074 instances of appos
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.40825386386057.
The following 41 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos
: NOUN-PROPN (2511; 41% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1229; 20% instances), NOUN-NOUN (767; 13% instances), PROPN-NOUN (576; 9% instances), PROPN-NUM (284; 5% instances), NOUN-NUM (274; 5% instances), PART-PROPN (90; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (84; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (38; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (38; 1% instances), NOUN-X (30; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (22; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (18; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (17; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (15; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (11; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (9; 0% instances), PROPN-X (9; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (6; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (6; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (6; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (6; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (6; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), X-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), PART-PART (1; 0% instances), PART-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (1; 0% instances), X-NUM (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).
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