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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a VP is the noun phrase which is the (accusative) object of the verb.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

12450 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

11976 instances of dobj (96%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.21654618473896.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (8716; 70% instances), VERB-PRON (2317; 19% instances), VERB-PROPN (671; 5% instances), VERB-DET (300; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (170; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (103; 1% instances), VERB-SYM (65; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (20; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (20; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (11; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (11; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (10; 0% instances), VERB-X (9; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-INTJ (3; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (2; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (2; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), AUX-DET (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SYM-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances).


dobj 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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