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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.

Ali gelince sevindi . \n He\/she became happy when Ali arrived
advcl(sevindi, gelince)
Okurken uyuyakalmışım . \n I fell asleep while reading
advcl(uyuyakalmışım, Okurken)

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

Bu kitabı sen de okursun diye aldım \n I bought this book so that you would read it too
advcl(aldım, okursun)
mark(okursun, diye)
Bu kitabı aldım ki sen de okuyasın \n I bought this book so that you would read it too
advcl(aldım, okuyasın)
mark(okuyasın, ki)
Bu kitabı okudun mu herşeyi anlayacaksın \n You will understand everything once you have read this book
advcl(anlayacaksın, okudun)
mark(okudun, mu)

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: tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/VERB (755; 93% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/VERB (29; 4% instances), tr-pos/ADJ-tr-pos/VERB (19; 2% instances), tr-pos/ADP-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NOUN-tr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/NUM-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PRON-tr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), tr-pos/PROPN-tr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), tr-pos/VERB-tr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	Uzanıp	uza	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Trans|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
2	mektubu	mektup	NOUN	Noun	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	dobj	_	_
3	aldı	al	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Binamıza	bina	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Plur|Person=3|Person[psor]=1	3	nmod	_	_
2	isim	isim	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	dobj	_	_
3	bulmak	bul	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
4	diye	diye	ADP	PCNom	_	3	case	_	_
5	bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	6	det	_	_
6	mesele	mesele	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	7	nsubj	_	_
7	çıkmıştı	çık	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pqp	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	Olayın	olay	NOUN	Noun	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ilk	ilk	ADJ	Adj	_	3	amod	_	_
3	günü	gün	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=3|Person[psor]=3	7	nmod	_	_
4	böyle	böyle	ADJ	Adj	_	6	det	_	_
5	bir	bir	NUM	ANum	NumType=Card	6	det	_	_
6	neticeye	netice	NOUN	Noun	Case=Dat|Number=Sing|Person=3	7	nmod	_	_
7	varmak	var	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
8	için	için	ADP	PCNom	_	7	case	_	_
9	kahin	kahin	NOUN	Noun	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=3	10	nsubj	_	_
10	olmak	ol	VERB	Verb	Aspect=Perf|Case=Nom|Mood=Ind|Negative=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
11	lazım	lazım	ADJ	Adj	_	0	root	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	Punc	_	11	punct	_	_


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