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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:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Romanian)

This relation is universal.

1715 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

974 instances of iobj (57%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.02390670553936.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-PRON (719; 42% instances), VERB-NOUN (695; 41% instances), ADJ-NOUN (169; 10% instances), VERB-PROPN (59; 3% instances), ADJ-PRON (14; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (12; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (11; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (10; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (4; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (4; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-DET (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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