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expl: expletive: reflexive pronoun with an inherently reflexive verb

The demonstrative particle eto can be used as an “extra” subject in the sentence, in this case all other sentence can be considered as the group of predicate. Cf. English construction with there-expletive.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

34 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

34 instances of expl (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.67647058823529.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-NOUN (28; 82% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 6% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 3% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 3% instances), VERB-PART (1; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (1; 3% instances).


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