dep: unspecified dependency
A dependency is labeled as dep when a more precise dependency relation between two words cannot be determined. This may be due to an unusual grammatical construction, a limitation of the annotation software, a parser error, or an unresolved long-distance dependency.
In Middle Armenian, the dep relation is also used in certain cases where the standard dependency analysis would result in crossing dependencies.
The accusative preposition զ/z is written together with the noun it marks. When the noun is modified by an adjective or a pronoun, the preposition is attached orthographically to the modifier instead. In UD annotation, զ is segmented as a separate token and normally attached to the head noun with the case relation, regardless of its orthographic position. However, when a noun has coordinated adjectival or pronominal modifiers, each preceded by զ, attaching all instances of the preposition to the head noun may result in crossing dependencies. To avoid this, the preposition preceding the second modifier is attached to that modifier with the dep relation rather than to the head noun with case.
The following example illustrates this convention:
# visual-style 5 4 dep color:blue
1 Զ զ ADP _ AdpType=Prep 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No|Translit=Z|LTranslit=z
2 երջանիկ երջանիկ ADJ _ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Translit=erǰanik|LTranslit=erǰanik
3 եւ եւ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Translit=ew|LTranslit=ew
4 զ զ ADP _ AdpType=Prep 5 dep _ SpaceAfter=No|Translit=z|LTranslit=z
5 հանճարեղ հանճարեղ ADJ _ _ 2 conj _ Translit=hančareġ|LTranslit=hančareġ
6 նորընծա նորընծայ ADJ _ Style=Var 8 amod _ Translit=norënça|LTranslit=norënçay
7 սուրբ սուրբ ADJ _ _ 8 amod _ Translit=sowrb|LTranslit=sowrb
8 րաբունին րաբունի NOUN _ Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No|Translit=rabownin|LTranslit=rabowni
For more details see the tokenization page.
dep in other languages: [axm] [cop] [cs] [en] [fr] [hy] [it] [lt] [oge] [pal] [pt] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [swl] [tr] [u]