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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.:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Romanian)

This relation is universal.

1158 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos.

1154 instances of appos (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.08721934369603.

The following 50 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: NOUN-NOUN (541; 47% instances), NOUN-PROPN (214; 18% instances), PROPN-NOUN (91; 8% instances), NOUN-PRON (43; 4% instances), NOUN-VERB (34; 3% instances), VERB-NOUN (27; 2% instances), NUM-NOUN (22; 2% instances), NOUN-ADJ (17; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (15; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (14; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (14; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (13; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (12; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (11; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (9; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (8; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (8; 1% instances), NOUN-ADP (5; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (5; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (4; 0% instances), NOUN-X (4; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (3; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (2; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADV-PART (1; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 0% instances), X-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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