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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark dialogue participant addressed in text. The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence. In Russian, the addressee’s name can also appear in the vocative Case form.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal.

7 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

5 instances of vocative (71%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.71428571428571.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-NOUN (2; 29% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 29% instances), VERB-PROPN (2; 29% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 14% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

15 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

13 instances of vocative (87%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 5.6.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-NOUN (6; 40% instances), VERB-PROPN (4; 27% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 20% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 7% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 7% instances).


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