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ccomp: clausal complement

A clausal complement of a verb or adjective is a dependent clause which is a core argument. That is, it functions like an object of the verb, or adjective.

Such clausal complements may be finite or nonfinite. However, if the subject of the clausal complement is controlled (that is, must be the same as the higher subject or object, with no other possible interpretation) the appropriate relation is xcomp.

The key difference here is that, while it is possible to interpret the first sentence to mean that the boss will not be doing any digging, in the second sentence it is clear that the subject of digging can only be we. This is what distinguishes ccomp and xcomp.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

10997 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as ccomp.

8827 instances of ccomp (80%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 7.73992907156497.

The following 29 pairs of parts of speech are connected with ccomp: VERB-VERB (9116; 83% instances), VERB-ADJ (929; 8% instances), VERB-NOUN (626; 6% instances), ADJ-VERB (89; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (88; 1% instances), NOUN-VERB (31; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (24; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (21; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (19; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (9; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (7; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (7; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (6; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (4; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (2; 0% instances), VERB-PART (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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