root: root
The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node “ROOT” is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with “0”, since the indexation of real words in the sentence starts at 1.
ROOT I love French fries .
root(ROOT, love)
ROOT Bill is an honest man
root(ROOT, man)
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is universal.
16622 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as root.
16622 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.48477920827819.
The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/VERB (9353; 56% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/NOUN (2791; 17% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/ADJ (1680; 10% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/PROPN (1420; 9% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/NUM (423; 3% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/ADV (251; 2% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/X (238; 1% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/INTJ (128; 1% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/SYM (107; 1% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/PRON (93; 1% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/PUNCT (85; 1% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/DET (29; 0% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/AUX (16; 0% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/PART (6; 0% instances), en-pos/ROOT-en-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances).
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1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _
2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _
3 AP AP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _
4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _
5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _
6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _
7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _
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1 Excerpt excerpt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No
2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _
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1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No
2 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _
3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No
4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _
5 folks folks NOUN UH _ 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No
6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _
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