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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers of nouns or clausal predicates. nmod is a noun functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. In Swedish, nmod is used for prepositional complements:

Two subtypes of nmod are introduced in Swedish: nmod:poss for for possessive/genitive modifiers and nmod:agent for agents of passive verbs.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal. There are 2 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:agent, nmod:poss.

10109 nodes (10%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

8022 instances of nmod (79%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.54347611039668.

The following 51 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (4386; 43% instances), NOUN-NOUN (3195; 32% instances), ADJ-NOUN (513; 5% instances), VERB-PRON (269; 3% instances), NUM-NOUN (217; 2% instances), NOUN-PROPN (182; 2% instances), PROPN-NOUN (176; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (171; 2% instances), VERB-PROPN (151; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (116; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (97; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (83; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (73; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (72; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (62; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (39; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (32; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (29; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (27; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (26; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (21; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (20; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (20; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (19; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (17; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (10; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (10; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (10; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (9; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (8; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (7; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (6; 0% instances), VERB-DET (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (3; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (2; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish-LinES)

This relation is universal. There are 2 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:agent, nmod:poss.

8395 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

7154 instances of nmod (85%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.49100655151876.

The following 46 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (3898; 46% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1989; 24% instances), VERB-PRON (528; 6% instances), VERB-PROPN (352; 4% instances), PROPN-NOUN (313; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (261; 3% instances), NOUN-PROPN (259; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (127; 2% instances), PRON-NOUN (106; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (83; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (70; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (55; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (52; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (52; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (51; 1% instances), AUX-NOUN (39; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (36; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (20; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (17; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (17; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (10; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (8; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (6; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (4; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (4; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (4; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (4; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish_Sign_Language)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:pass.

46 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

34 instances of nmod (74%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.45652173913043.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (20; 43% instances), VERB-PRON (8; 17% instances), NOUN-NOUN (6; 13% instances), VERB-VERB (6; 13% instances), VERB-X (3; 7% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 2% instances), X-NOUN (1; 2% instances), X-VERB (1; 2% instances).


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