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Syntax

Uralic languages use the common dependencies quite widely…

Indirect objects

The secondary and other n-ary arguments of verb besides dobj are often marked with just nmod.

Owner marked with case plus copula

It is common to mark owning with a copula and a case on owner. This is annotated using the nmod:own specialised dependency in Uralic languages that exhibit this structure. Structurally this expression type corresponds to other nominal modifiers, but there may be syntactic diversions as well as semantic specialisation.

Genitive possession

When a possessor is marked by a genitive or similar case on the possessor, nmod:poss dependency is used.

Deverbals’ nominal arguments

In many Uralic languages, the verbs when derived retain the argument structure, however, dependencies customarily would not mark multiple subject or object dependencies within a sentence, the deverbal nominals will use nmod:gobj and nmod:gsubj for objects and subjects respectively.

Copular subjects and objects

In predicative or equative sentences the subjects are marked as nsubj:cop or csubj:cop for nominal and clausal subjects respectively.