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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

Note that we treat the conditional clauses specially and mark then with a subtype: advcl:cond.

Turkish adverbial clauses are mainly formed by a set of converbial suffixes.

The subordinator ki and a few other subordinating words may also form adverbial clauses.

A large number of adverbials and adverbial clauses are formed by postpositions attached to nouns or noun clauses. We do not mark these as adverbial (advmod or advcl). For both cases we use nmod (see discussion of subordination in tr-overview/specific-syntax).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)

This relation is universal.

813 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

780 instances of advcl (96%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 4.1980319803198.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (755; 93% instances), NOUN-VERB (29; 4% instances), ADJ-VERB (19; 2% instances), ADP-VERB (2; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 0% instances).


advcl in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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