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:
Treebank Statistics (UD_Romanian)
This relation is universal.
2110 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as cop
.
1986 instances of cop
(94%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.76445497630332.
The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop
: NOUN-VERB (758; 36% instances), ADJ-VERB (610; 29% instances), ADV-VERB (266; 13% instances), VERB-AUX (222; 11% instances), PRON-VERB (83; 4% instances), VERB-VERB (57; 3% instances), ADP-VERB (30; 1% instances), NUM-VERB (30; 1% instances), ADJ-AUX (18; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (13; 1% instances), NOUN-AUX (11; 1% instances), DET-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), PRON-AUX (2; 0% instances), ADV-AUX (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-AUX (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances).
cop in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]