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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.

Like non-clausal adjectives, most adjectival clauses in Turkish precede the noun they modify. The only exception is the adjectival clauses formed by ki that is similar to English relative pronouns “which” or “who” (not to be confused by suffix -ki).

The primary means of subordination, including forming adjectival clauses, is through the subordinating suffixes attached to the head of the subordinate clause. The adjectival clauses formed by -ki is not as frequent and cover only a limited range uses of adjectival clauses.

Ali'nin okuduğu kitap \n The book that Ali is reading
acl(kitap, okuduğu)
Ali , ki çok kitap okur , henüz son kitabını okumamış. \n Ali, who reads a lot, hasn't read your last book yet
acl(Ali, okur)
mark(okur, ki)

Almost all adjectival clauses in Turkish are relative clauses. There are only a few marginal constructions where a pronoun referring to the modified noun can be present in the subordinate clause.

Ali , ki onu\/kendisini üç gündür görmüyorduk , evde kitap okuyormuş \n Ali, who we haven't been seeing (him\/himself) for three days, has apparently been reading books at home
acl(Ali, görmüyorduk)
mark(görmüyorduk, ki)

We currently do not mark (non-)relative clauses differently.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)

This relation is universal.

1679 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as acl.

1671 instances of acl (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.42882668254914.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (1092; 65% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (306; 18% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (139; 8% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/VERB (110; 7% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (13; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADV-tr-pos/VERB (9; 1% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), tr-pos/CONJ-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PUNCT-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/DET-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Cumhurbaşkanı	cumhurbaşkanı	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=3	2	nmod	_	_
2	ile	ile	CONJ	Conj	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sürtüşen	sürtüş	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
4	bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	5	det	_	_
5	iktidar	iktidar	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	6	compound:lvc	_	_
6	olmak	ol	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
7	istemiyoruz	iste	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Negative=Neg|Number=Plur|Person=1|Register=Inf|Tense=Pres	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	babasına	baba	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=3	3	nmod	_	_
2	yemek	yemek	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	dobj	_	_
3	götürdük	götür	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past	5	dobj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	Punc	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dedi	de	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past	0	root	_	_
6	Katana	katana	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	5	nsubj	_	_
7	duyulur	duy	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Aor|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
8	duyulmaz	duy	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Negative=Neg|Tense=Aor|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
9	bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	10	det	_	_
10	sesle	ses	NOUN	Noun	Case=Ins|Number=Sing|Person=3	5	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Atatürk'ün	Atatürk	PROPN	Prop	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	nsubj	_	_
2	rakıyla	rakı	NOUN	Noun	Case=Ins|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	_
3	leblebi	leblebi	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	dobj	_	_
4	sevdiği	sev	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	dobj	_	_
5	bilinen	bil	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
6	bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	7	det	_	_
7	gerçek	gerçek	ADJ	NAdj	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	7	punct	_	_


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