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nmod:poss: possessive nominal modifier

The relation nmod:poss is used for a genitive/possessive nominal modifier, expressed either by a nominal in the genitive or by a possessive determiner.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod. There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:agent.

1732 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss.

1725 instances of nmod:poss (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.27424942263279.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss: NOUN-NOUN (913; 53% instances), NOUN-DET (668; 39% instances), NOUN-PROPN (132; 8% instances), ADJ-DET (7; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish-LinES)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod. There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:agent.

1512 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss.

1511 instances of nmod:poss (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.32142857142857.

The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss: NOUN-PRON (869; 57% instances), NOUN-NOUN (377; 25% instances), NOUN-PROPN (212; 14% instances), ADJ-PRON (11; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (9; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (8; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (5; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (5; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (4; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (4; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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