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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal, consequence, purpose, conditional clauses, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

This relation is also used for optional avderbial predicatives like


Treebank Statistics (UD_Greek)

This relation is universal.

706 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

511 instances of advcl (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.29178470254958.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (527; 75% instances), NOUN-VERB (43; 6% instances), ADJ-VERB (40; 6% instances), VERB-ADJ (24; 3% instances), VERB-NOUN (22; 3% instances), ADV-VERB (21; 3% instances), ADJ-ADJ (5; 1% instances), ADV-ADJ (4; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (4; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (3; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (2; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 0% instances).


advcl in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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