xcomp
: open clausal complement
An open clausal complement (xcomp
) of a verb or an adjective is a predicative or clausal complement without its own subject. The reference of the subject is necessarily determined by an argument external to the xcomp (normally by the object of the next higher clause, if there is one, or else by the subject of the next higher clause. These complements are always non-finite, and they are complements (arguments of the higher verb or adjective) rather than adjuncts/modifiers, such as a purpose clause. The name xcomp
is borrowed from Lexical-Functional Grammar.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This relation is universal.
3570 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as xcomp
.
3559 instances of xcomp
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.41344537815126.
The following 25 pairs of parts of speech are connected with xcomp
: VERB-VERB (2339; 66% instances), VERB-ADJ (655; 18% instances), ADJ-VERB (236; 7% instances), VERB-NOUN (187; 5% instances), VERB-PROPN (66; 2% instances), VERB-ADV (24; 1% instances), VERB-PART (13; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (9; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (7; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (5; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (5; 0% instances), ADJ-PART (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (2; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-X (1; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (1; 0% instances).
xcomp in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]