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ccomp: clausal complement

A clausal complement of a verb or adjective is a dependent clause with an internal subject which functions like an object of the verb or adjective.

He says that you like to swim
ccomp(says, like)
I am certain that he did it 
ccomp(certain, did) 
mark(did, that) 

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

3041 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as ccomp.

2916 instances of ccomp (96%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.5619861887537.

The following 29 pairs of parts of speech are connected with ccomp: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (2064; 68% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (316; 10% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (265; 9% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (205; 7% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (31; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (28; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (25; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (25; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (18; 1% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/VERB (9; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (8; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/AUX (8; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/INTJ (7; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PART-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Google	Google	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	i	i	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	_	6	det	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	_	9	neg	_	_
9	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_


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