ccomp
: clausal complement
A clausal complement of a verb or adjective is a dependent clause which is a core argument. That is, it functions like an object of the verb, or adjective.
Such clausal complements may be finite or nonfinite. However, if the subject of the clausal complement is controlled (that is, must be the same as the higher subject or object, with no other possible interpretation) the appropriate relation is xcomp.
The key difference here is that, while it is possible to interpret the first
sentence to mean that the boss will not be doing any digging, in the second
sentence it is clear that the subject of digging can only be we. This is
what distinguishes ccomp
and xcomp
.
Additionally, ccomp
is used with copulas.
(In these cases, the copula is treated as a head. This is a somewhat inconsistent and ugly feature of the current UD. An alternative solution was adopted for this case in the Turku TDT. It may be worth considering adopting it in a revision of UD.)
Note: In earlier versions of SD/USD, complement clauses with nouns
like fact or report were also analyzed as ccomp
. However, we
now analyze them as acl. Hence, ccomp
does not appear in
nominals. This makes sense, since nominals normally do not take core
arguments.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)
This relation is universal.
1977 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as ccomp
.
1611 instances of ccomp
(81%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 7.3697521497218.
The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with ccomp
: VERB-VERB (1570; 79% instances), VERB-NOUN (179; 9% instances), VERB-ADJ (173; 9% instances), VERB-PRON (18; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (7; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (4; 0% instances), DET-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (3; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (2; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (2; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-DET (2; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-Bosque)
This relation is universal.
1569 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as ccomp
.
1220 instances of ccomp
(78%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 8.77310388782664.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with ccomp
: VERB-VERB (1209; 77% instances), VERB-NOUN (142; 9% instances), VERB-ADJ (137; 9% instances), ADJ-VERB (21; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (15; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (12; 1% instances), NOUN-VERB (12; 1% instances), NUM-VERB (5; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (3; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (3; 0% instances), DET-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)
This relation is universal.
2360 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as ccomp
.
1634 instances of ccomp
(69%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 9.49661016949153.
The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with ccomp
: VERB-VERB (2043; 87% instances), VERB-NOUN (234; 10% instances), VERB-PRON (45; 2% instances), VERB-PROPN (9; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (8; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (4; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (3; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-CONJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances).
ccomp in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]