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nsubj: nominal subject

The dependency type nsubj marks nominal subjects of a clause. Subjects are direct dependents of the main predicate of the clause, which may be a verb, noun or adjective.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

7580 nodes (8%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

6319 instances of nsubj (83%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.58258575197889.

The following 34 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-PRON (3031; 40% instances), VERB-NOUN (2852; 38% instances), ADJ-NOUN (484; 6% instances), NOUN-NOUN (270; 4% instances), ADJ-PRON (254; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (213; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (210; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (86; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (39; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (19; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (18; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (16; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (15; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (10; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (9; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (8; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (8; 0% instances), VERB-DET (8; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (6; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (2; 0% instances), DET-DET (2; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (2; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (2; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish-LinES)

This relation is universal.

6816 nodes (9%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

5590 instances of nsubj (82%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.13028169014085.

The following 41 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-PRON (3665; 54% instances), VERB-NOUN (1370; 20% instances), VERB-PROPN (792; 12% instances), ADJ-PRON (217; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (171; 3% instances), ADJ-NOUN (170; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (66; 1% instances), AUX-PRON (60; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (51; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (45; 1% instances), PRON-PRON (40; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (33; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (23; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (16; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (14; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (10; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (8; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (7; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (7; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (7; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (7; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (6; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (6; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (4; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PART-PRON (2; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish_Sign_Language)

This relation is universal.

81 nodes (12%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

70 instances of nsubj (86%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.74074074074074.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (55; 68% instances), VERB-PRON (10; 12% instances), X-NOUN (4; 5% instances), ADV-NOUN (3; 4% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 2% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 1% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 1% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 1% instances), VERB-X (1; 1% instances), X-PRON (1; 1% instances).


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