csubj: clausal subject
A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb. In the two following examples, what she said is the subject.
What she said makes sense
csubj(makes, said)
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is universal.
340 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as csubj.
211 instances of csubj (62%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 5.21764705882353.
The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with csubj: en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (150; 44% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (109; 32% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (55; 16% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (8; 2% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (3; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (2; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (2; 1% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/VERB (2; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (2; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (2; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PART-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).
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1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _
2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _
3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 csubj _ _
4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 dobj _ _
5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _
6 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _
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1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _
2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 dobj _ _
3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _
4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _
5 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _
7 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _
8 world world PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _
9 resorts resorts PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _
10 international international PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 dobj _ SpaceAfter=No
11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _
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1 Heather Heather PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _
2 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _
3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _
4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _
5 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _
6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _
7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _
8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No
9 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _
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