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Note: nmod, neg, and punct appear in two places.

Core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep
nsubj csubj
nsubjpass csubjpass
dobj ccomp xcomp
iobj
Non-core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
nmod advcl advmod
    neg
Special clausal dependents
Nominal dep Auxiliary Other
vocative aux mark
discourse auxpass punct
expl cop
Noun dependents
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
nummod acl amod
appos   det
nmod   neg
Compounding and unanalyzed
compound mwe goeswith
name foreign
Coordination
conj cc punct
Case-marking, prepositions, possessive
case
Loose joining relations
list parataxis remnant
dislocated reparandum
Other
Sentence head Unspecified dependency
root dep

acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal.

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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

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advcl:tcl: advcl:tcl

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for advcl:tcl.

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advmod: adverbial modifier

An adverbial modifier of a word is an adverb or adverbial phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the word.

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advmod:tmod: advmod:tmod

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for advmod:tmod.

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amod: adjectival modifier

An adjectival modifier of a noun is any adjectival phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the noun.

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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier serves to identify its head in a different way. This relation is usually established between noun phrases.

However, other parts of speech and even clauses can also be involved in the relation:

The apposition can be introduced by an adverb (e.g. ‘adică’, ‘anume’, ‘respectiv’, ‘alias’, etc.), which is analysed as a ‘mark’ for the apposotion:

It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.

‘appos’ is also used to link key-value pairs in addresses, signatures, etc.:

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aux: auxiliary

An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause.

Exception: The auxiliary verb used to construct the passive voice is not labeled ‘aux’, but ‘auxpass’.

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auxpass: passive auxiliary

A passive auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause which contains the passive information.

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case: case marking

The case relation is used for linking prepositions to their heads:

When a preposition is used with non-finite verbs, it is analysed as mark:

Prepositions linking numerals to their nominal heads are dependents of the numerals.

Compare this with numerals from 0 to 19 which take no preposition when modifying nouns:

Prepositions linking adverbs to their post-poned adjective or adverb heads are also mark on the modifying adverb:

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cc: coordinating conjunction

A cc is the relation between the first conjunct and the coordinating conjunction delimiting another conjunct:

A coordinating conjunction may also appear at the beginning of a sentence. This is also called a cc, and it depends on the root predicate of the sentence. (In fact there is a coordination that spans multiple sentences. We cannot attach a word to the first conjunct because it is in another sentence. Thus we attach it to the first conjunct available in the current sentence: its main predicate.)

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cc:preconj: cc:preconj

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for cc:preconj.

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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.

The clausal predicative of the copula verb a fi is also analysed as ccomp. NB: This is the only case when the copula verb a fi is treated as a head.

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ccomp:pmod: ccomp:pmod

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for ccomp:pmod.

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compound: compound

compound is used for linking compound words of any part of speech:

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conj: conjunct

A conjunct is the relation between two elements connected by a coordinating conjunction, such as and, or, etc. We treat conjunctions asymmetrically: the head of the relation is the first conjunct and all the other conjuncts depend on it via the conj relation.

Coordinate clauses are treated the same way as coordination of other constituent types:

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cop: copula

A copula is the relation between the complement of a copular verb and the copular verb a fi (only). (We normally take a copula as a dependent of its complement.)

All other copula verbs are heads of clauses and their complements are in xcomp relation to them:

When the copula verb has auxiliaries, they are also dependents of the lexical predicate:

When the complement of the copula verb a fi is a clause, the copula is the head, and the subordinate clause is in ccomp relation with it:

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csubj: clausal subject

A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause.

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csubjpass: clausal passive subject

A clausal passive subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a passive clause:

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dep: unspecified dependency

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for dep.

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det: determiner

The relation determiner (det) holds between a nominal head and its determiner:

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discourse: discourse element

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for discourse.

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dislocated: dislocated elements

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for dislocated.

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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a verb is the noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon.

When the direct object is doubled by a pronoun, this is marked as expl.

Romanian allows for the occurrence of two Accusative objects with some (uses of certain) verbs: the [+Animate] object (the direct object in traditional grammar terms) is anlysed here as iobj, while the other Accusative object (the secondary object in traditional grammar terms) is dobj:

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expl: expletive

Romanian does not have expletives of the English sort. However, we use the expl label for the following situations:

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expl:impers: expl:impers

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for expl:impers.

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expl:pass: expl:pass

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for expl:pass.

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expl:poss: expl:poss

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for expl:poss.

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expl:pv: expl:pv

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for expl:pv.

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foreign: foreign words

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for foreign.

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goeswith: goes with

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for goeswith.

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iobj: indirect object

The indirect object of a verb is any nominal phrase that is a core argument of the verb, usually expressing the recipient, the addressee or beneficiary of the predicate:

We also analyse as iobj the [+Animate] object (the direct object in traditional grammar terms) of verbs with two Accusative objects, whereas the other object (the secondary object in traditional grammar terms) is dobj:

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list: list

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for list.

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mark: marker

A marker is the word introducing a finite clause subordinate to another clause:

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mwe: multi-word expression

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for mwe.

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name: name

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for name.

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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies.

Modifiers labeled neg depend either on a noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).

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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).

nmod is a noun (or noun phrase) functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. This means that it functionally corresponds to an adverbial when it attaches to a verb, adjective or other adverb. But when attaching to a noun, it corresponds to an attribute.

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nmod:agent: nmod:agent

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for nmod:agent.

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nmod:pmod: nmod:pmod

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for nmod:pmod.

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nmod:tmod: nmod:tmod

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for nmod:tmod.

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nsubj: nominal subject

A nominal subject is a nominal phrase which is the syntactic subject of a clause.

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nsubjpass: passive nominal subject

A passive nominal subject is a noun phrase which is the syntactic subject of a passive clause.

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nummod: numeric modifier

A numeric modifier of a noun is any number phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the noun with a quantity.

When analysing dates, only the day is marked as a nummod for the month, whereas the year is an nmod for the month:

Regarding the analysis of years, we show two ways in which they are analysed: (i) in strings such as ‘În anul 2000 am absolvit facultatea.’ (In year-the 2000 have-I graduated faculty-the.), the year is an nummod for ‘anul’; (ii) in strings such as ‘În 2000 am absolvit facultatea’ (In 2000 have-I graduated faculty-the.), the year is an nmod for the verb.

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parataxis: parataxis

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for parataxis.

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punct: punctuation

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for punct.

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remnant: remnant in ellipsis

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for remnant.

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reparandum: overridden disfluency

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for reparandum.

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root: root

The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node “ROOT” is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with “0”, since the indexation of real words in the sentence starts at 1.

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vocative: vocative

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for vocative.

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xcomp: open clausal complement

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for xcomp.

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