iobj
: indirect object
This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation
for iobj
.
The indirect object of a verb is any nominal phrase that is a core argument of the verb but is not its subject or direct object. A prototypical example is the recipient of ditransitive verbs of speaking:
The other examples include all arguments of a head that are not direct objects or subjects, and are PPs introduced by various prepositions. These cases are handled in the valency dictionary:
Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)
This relation is universal.
3515 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as iobj
.
2873 instances of iobj
(82%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.59317211948791.
The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj
: VERB-NOUN (2439; 69% instances), VERB-PRON (685; 19% instances), VERB-PROPN (250; 7% instances), VERB-ADJ (54; 2% instances), VERB-DET (37; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (21; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (12; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (7; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (5; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (3; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).
iobj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]