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case: case marking

The case relation is used for any case-marking element which is treated as a separate syntactic word (including prepositions, postpositions, and clitic case markers). Case-marking elements are treated as dependents of the noun or clause they attach to or introduce. The case relation aims at providing a more uniform analysis of nominal elements, prepositions and case in morphologically rich languages: a nominal in an oblique case will receive the same dependency structure as a nominal introduced by an adposition (“para ele” will have the same dependency relation as “lhe”, for example).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)

This relation is universal.

31781 nodes (14%) are attached to their parents as case.

31212 instances of case (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.82414020955917.

The following 48 pairs of parts of speech are connected with case: NOUN-ADP (21240; 67% instances), PROPN-ADP (7009; 22% instances), NUM-ADP (836; 3% instances), PRON-ADP (765; 2% instances), ADV-ADP (467; 1% instances), ADJ-ADP (410; 1% instances), DET-ADP (229; 1% instances), SYM-ADP (202; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (188; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (123; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (99; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (30; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (25; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (22; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (18; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (11; 0% instances), SYM-ADV (11; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (9; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (9; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (9; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (6; 0% instances), CONJ-ADP (6; 0% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (6; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (4; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (4; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (4; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (4; 0% instances), DET-ADV (3; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (3; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PART-ADP (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), X-ADP (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-Bosque)

This relation is universal.

33389 nodes (15%) are attached to their parents as case.

33223 instances of case (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.7358710952709.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with case: NOUN-ADP (23542; 71% instances), PROPN-ADP (7148; 21% instances), PRON-ADP (1064; 3% instances), NUM-ADP (717; 2% instances), ADV-ADP (409; 1% instances), ADJ-ADP (357; 1% instances), SYM-ADP (109; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (17; 0% instances), DET-ADP (15; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (7; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), INTJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), PART-ADP (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)

This relation is universal.

47764 nodes (16%) are attached to their parents as case.

47440 instances of case (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.29865589146638.

The following 49 pairs of parts of speech are connected with case: NOUN-ADP (30878; 65% instances), PROPN-ADP (13239; 28% instances), NUM-ADP (1906; 4% instances), PRON-ADP (841; 2% instances), ADV-ADP (324; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (181; 0% instances), PART-ADP (90; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (78; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (64; 0% instances), X-ADP (25; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (22; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (19; 0% instances), NOUN-X (8; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (8; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (7; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (6; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (6; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (4; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (4; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (4; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (4; 0% instances), X-ADV (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (3; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (3; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), PRON-X (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), DET-ADP (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (1; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-CONJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADP (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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