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appos: appositional modifier

An appositional modifier of an NP is an NP immediately to the right of the first NP that serves to define or modify that NP. It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.

Sam , my brother , arrived
appos(Sam-1, brother-4)
Bill ( John 's cousin )
appos(Bill-1, cousin-5)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC )
appos(Corporation-4, ABC-6)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

1933 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as appos.

1878 instances of appos (97%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.65287118468702.

The following 47 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PROPN (351; 18% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (348; 18% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PROPN (252; 13% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NOUN (210; 11% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/NOUN (163; 8% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NUM (162; 8% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (65; 3% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/X (62; 3% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/NOUN (60; 3% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NUM (44; 2% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (30; 2% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/NOUN (27; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/X (18; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/SYM (16; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (13; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (10; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/X (9; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/PROPN (8; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/PROPN (8; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/DET (6; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (5; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/NUM (5; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/X (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PUNCT-en-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	miramar	miramar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
4	florida	florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	theyy	theyy	PRON	PRP	_	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	seafood	seafood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	dobj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_

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1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
4	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	TEXT.htm	text.htm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Analyst	analyst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	name	_	_
8	Gilette	Gilette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_


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