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csubj: clausal subject

A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the clause contains a copula, the root of the clause is the complement of the copula rather than the copular verb itself. The dependent is the main lexical verb or other predicate of the subject clause.

For the clausal subject of a passive verb or verb group, the subtype csubj:pass is used.

# visual-style 2 5 csubj color:blue
1	չէ	եմ	AUX	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Polarity=Neg|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	պատեհ	պատեհ	ADJ	_	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	այլ	այլ	DET	_	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	մարդ	մարդ	NOUN	_	Animacy=Hum|Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
5	սպաննել	սպաննել	VERB	_	Polarity=Pos|Subcat=Tran|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	2	csubj	_	_
# visual-style 5 1 csubj color:blue
1	Զընդանելն	զընդանել	VERB	_	Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Polarity=Pos|Style=Var|Subcat=Tran|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	5	csubj	_	_
2	ըստ	ըստ	ADP	_	AdpType=Prep	4	case	_	_
3	թագաւորին	թագաւոր	NOUN	_	Animacy=Hum|Case=Dat|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	կամացն	կամ	NOUN	_	Animacy=Nhum|Case=Dat|Definite=Def|Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	լինի	լինիլ	VERB	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Polarity=Pos|Style=Arch|Subcat=Intr|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Mid	0	root	_	_

We also analyze the nominal predicates with clausal subjects formed by subordinating conjunction որ similarly.

# visual-style 1 4 csubj color:blue
1	պատեհ	պատեհ	ADJ	_	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	է	եմ	AUX	_	Aspect=Imp|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Polarity=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	որ	որ	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	_
4	ձենել	ձենել	VERB	_	Polarity=Pos|Subcat=Tran|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	1	csubj	_	_
5	տայ	տալ	AUX	_	Aspect=Prosp|Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Polarity=Pos|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Cau	4	aux:caus	_	SpaceAfter=No

csubj in other languages: [axm] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [lt] [naq] [no] [oge] [pal] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [uz] [vi] [xcl] [yue] [zh]