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dislocated: dislocated elements

The dislocated relation is used for fronted or postposed elements that do not fulfill the usual core grammatical relations of a sentence. These elements often appear to be in the periphery of the sentence, and may be separated off with a comma intonation.

It is used for fronted elements that introduce the topic of a sentence. The dislocated element attaches to the head of the clause to which it belongs:

However, it would not be used for a topic-marked noun that is also the subject of the sentence; this would be an nsubj.

It is also used for postposed elements. The dislocated elements attach to the same governor as the dependent that they double for. Right dislocated elements are frequent in spoken languages.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-Bosque)

This relation is universal.

9 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as dislocated.

8 instances of dislocated (89%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 6.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dislocated: VERB-NOUN (5; 56% instances), ADV-DET (1; 11% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 11% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 11% instances), VERB-DET (1; 11% instances).


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