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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).

nmod is a noun (or noun phrase) functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. This means that it functionally corresponds to an adverbial when it attaches to a verb, adjective or other adverb. But when attaching to a noun, it corresponds to an attribute, or genitive complement.

The nmod relation can be further specified by the case label assigned to prepositions.

nmod is also used for nominal modifiers indicating time, cause, amount etc.:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Greek)

This relation is universal.

9643 nodes (16%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

7875 instances of nmod (82%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.83469874520377.

The following 25 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: NOUN-NOUN (5515; 57% instances), VERB-NOUN (1811; 19% instances), NOUN-PRON (860; 9% instances), ADV-NOUN (390; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (272; 3% instances), NOUN-NUM (256; 3% instances), VERB-PRON (130; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (89; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (56; 1% instances), CONJ-NOUN (53; 1% instances), ADV-PRON (37; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (35; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (34; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (22; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (21; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (17; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (10; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (9; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (6; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (6; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (5; 0% instances), CONJ-PRON (5; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances).


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