SCONJ: subordinating conjunction
Definition
A subordinating conjunction is a conjunction that links constructions by making one of them a constituent of the other. The subordinating conjunction typically marks the incorporated constituent which has the status of a (subordinate) clause.
For coordinating conjunctions, see CONJ.
Examples
- що “that”
- щоб, аби “so that”
- якщо “if”
- як “as”
- ніж “than”
References
- Loos, Eugene E., et al. 2003. Glossary of linguistic terms: What is a subordinating conjunction?
- Wikipedia
Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)
There are 5 SCONJ lemmas (1%), 5 SCONJ types (1%) and 39 SCONJ tokens (2%).
Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of SCONJ is: 12 in number of lemmas, 12 in number of types and 10 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent SCONJ lemmas: що, щоб, як, оскільки, якщо
The 10 most frequent SCONJ types: що, щоб, як, Якщо, оскільки
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: що (SCONJ 24, PRON 7), щоб (SCONJ 11, PART 1), як (ADV 3, SCONJ 2)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: що (SCONJ 24, PRON 4), щоб (SCONJ 11, PART 1), як (ADV 3, SCONJ 1)
- що
- щоб
- як
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of SCONJ is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.172859).
The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “оскільки”: оскільки.
The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “що”: що.
The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “щоб”: щоб.
SCONJ does not occur with any features.
Relations
SCONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 2 different relations: uk-dep/mark (38; 97% instances), uk-dep/compound (1; 3% instances)
Parents of SCONJ nodes belong to 3 different parts of speech: VERB (34; 87% instances), ADV (4; 10% instances), PRON (1; 3% instances)
39 (100%) SCONJ nodes are leaves.
The highest child degree of a SCONJ node is 0.
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