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expl: expletive

This relation captures an existential det in extraposition constructions. Note that in some dialects of Swedish där can be used in the same way. Only det is currently attested in the treebank. There is further discussion and examples on the universal dependency page (expl).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

493 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as expl.

388 instances of expl (79%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.71602434077079.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (350; 71% instances), ADJ-PRON (121; 25% instances), NOUN-PRON (21; 4% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish-LinES)

This relation is universal.

462 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as expl.

390 instances of expl (84%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.90909090909091.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (289; 63% instances), ADJ-PRON (67; 15% instances), NOUN-PRON (50; 11% instances), PRON-PRON (34; 7% instances), PROPN-PRON (10; 2% instances), ADV-PRON (5; 1% instances), ADP-PRON (3; 1% instances), AUX-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances).


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