compound
: compound
compound
is one of the three relations in UD for compounding.
It is used for
- any kind of X0 compounding: noun compounds (e.g., phone book), but also verb and
adjective compounds that are more common in other languages (such as
Persian or Japanese light verb constructions). It is also used for the “phrasal verb” construction of European languages (e.g., throw up), with the adposition as the
compound
dependent of the verb.
Phone book
compound(book, Phone)
- for numbers
I have four thousand sheep
compound(thousand, four)
I lost $ 3.2 billion
compound(billion, 3.2)
- for particles of phrasal verbs:
put up
compound(put, up)
The two other compounding relations are:
- mwe for fixed grammaticized expressions with function words
- name for proper nouns constituted of multiple nominal elements
compound in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]