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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers of nouns or clausal predicates. nmod is a noun functioning as a non-core (oblique) argument or adjunct. In English, nmod is used

The nmod relation holds between the noun/predicate modified by the prepositional complement and the noun introduced by the preposition.

Nominal modifiers not introduced by a preposition or not ‘s genitives are tagged nmod:npmod, a subtype of nmod. Temporal nominal modifiers are also marked with a separate relation nmod:tmod. See the definitions of these relations.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal. There are 3 language-specific subtypes of nmod: nmod:npmod, nmod:poss, nmod:tmod.

19759 nodes (8%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

18551 instances of nmod (94%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.17556556505896.

The following 99 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: VERB-NOUN (6458; 33% instances), NOUN-NOUN (5241; 27% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1600; 8% instances), VERB-PROPN (1575; 8% instances), ADJ-NOUN (850; 4% instances), VERB-PRON (634; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (367; 2% instances), NOUN-PRON (250; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (224; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (210; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (203; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (156; 1% instances), DET-NOUN (148; 1% instances), NUM-NOUN (139; 1% instances), NUM-NUM (126; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (121; 1% instances), NOUN-NUM (117; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (117; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (108; 1% instances), VERB-DET (105; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (75; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (71; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (63; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (54; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (49; 0% instances), DET-PRON (47; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (46; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (39; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (36; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (35; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (34; 0% instances), VERB-X (33; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (32; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (31; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (29; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (28; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (25; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (19; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (16; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (16; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (15; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (13; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (13; 0% instances), NOUN-X (11; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (11; 0% instances), X-NUM (11; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (10; 0% instances), ADV-DET (10; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (8; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (8; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (7; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (7; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (7; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (7; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (5; 0% instances), ADV-ADP (4; 0% instances), ADV-SYM (4; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (4; 0% instances), DET-ADV (4; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (4; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (4; 0% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), DET-NUM (3; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (3; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (3; 0% instances), SYM-SYM (3; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), X-NOUN (3; 0% instances), DET-DET (2; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), INTJ-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-INTJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-DET (2; 0% instances), SYM-ADV (2; 0% instances), SYM-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-DET (1; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (1; 0% instances), AUX-NUM (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), INTJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADP (1; 0% instances), SYM-DET (1; 0% instances), SYM-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).


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