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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.

Killar , ta det lungt ! \n Guys , take it easy!
vocative(ta, Killar)
David , hur är läget ? \n David, how 's it going ?
vocative(hur, David)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

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

1 instances of vocative (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: sv-pos/VERB-sv-pos/NOUN (1; 100% instances).

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1	Fatta	fatta	VERB	VB|IMP|AKT	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	mod	mod	NOUN	NN|NEU|SIN|IND|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	MID	_	1	punct	_	_
4	hemmakvinnor	hemmakvinna	NOUN	NN|UTR|PLU|IND|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Gender=Com|Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	MAD	_	1	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish-LinES)

This relation is universal.

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

45 instances of vocative (53%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 4.90588235294118.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: sv-pos/VERB-sv-pos/NOUN (42; 49% instances), sv-pos/VERB-sv-pos/PROPN (19; 22% instances), sv-pos/ADJ-sv-pos/NOUN (4; 5% instances), sv-pos/ADV-sv-pos/PROPN (4; 5% instances), sv-pos/NOUN-sv-pos/NOUN (4; 5% instances), sv-pos/ADJ-sv-pos/PROPN (3; 4% instances), sv-pos/NOUN-sv-pos/PROPN (3; 4% instances), sv-pos/INTJ-sv-pos/PROPN (2; 2% instances), sv-pos/INTJ-sv-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), sv-pos/PRON-sv-pos/NOUN (1; 1% instances), sv-pos/PRON-sv-pos/PROPN (1; 1% instances), sv-pos/PROPN-sv-pos/PROPN (1; 1% instances).

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1	Såg	_	VERB	PAST-ACT	_	0	root	_	_
2	ni	_	PRON	PERS-P2PL-NOM	_	1	nsubj	_	_
3	matchen	_	NOUN	SG-DEF-NOM	_	1	dobj	_	_
4	ikväll	_	ADV	_	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	1	punct	_	_
6	man	_	NOUN	SG-FGN	_	1	vocative	_	_
7	?	_	PUNCT	QuestionMark	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	"	_	PUNCT	Quote	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Utmärkt	_	ADV	_	_	0	root	_	_
3	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dudley	_	PROPN	SG-NOM	_	7	vocative	_	_
5	"	_	PUNCT	Quote	_	2	punct	_	_
6	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sade	_	VERB	PAST-ACT	_	2	parataxis	_	_
8	morbror	_	NOUN	SG-IND-NOM	_	9	nmod	_	_
9	Vernon	_	PROPN	SG-NOM	_	7	nsubj	_	_
10	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Naturligtvis	_	ADV	_	_	0	root	_	_
2	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Curtis	_	PROPN	SG-NOM	_	1	vocative	_	_
4	,	_	PUNCT	Comma	_	1	punct	_	_
5	sade	_	VERB	PAST-ACT	_	1	parataxis	_	_
6	Hjalmar	_	PROPN	SG-NOM	_	5	nsubj	_	_
7	.	_	PUNCT	Period	_	1	punct	_	_


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