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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

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An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

Me vió mientras lavaba los platos.
advcl(vió, lavaba)
Le habló para crear una cuenta 
advcl(habló, crear)
Estaba cansado cuando lo vi 
advcl(cansado, vi)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

4266 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

3513 instances of advcl (82%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 7.73417721518987.

The following 39 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: es-pos/VERB-es-pos/VERB (2285; 54% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/VERB (1101; 26% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/VERB (400; 9% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/ADJ (124; 3% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/NOUN (99; 2% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/VERB (45; 1% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/VERB (41; 1% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/ADJ (20; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/VERB (18; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/NOUN (17; 0% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/NOUN (15; 0% instances), es-pos/ADP-es-pos/VERB (12; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/ADJ (12; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/PRON (12; 0% instances), es-pos/DET-es-pos/VERB (11; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/ADV (10; 0% instances), es-pos/NUM-es-pos/VERB (8; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), es-pos/X-es-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), es-pos/AUX-es-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/AUX (3; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/CONJ (3; 0% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), es-pos/SYM-es-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/AUX-es-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/CONJ-es-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NUM-es-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/SCONJ-es-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	Es	ser	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	necesario	necesario	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	que	que	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	_
4	habilite	habilitar	VERB	_	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	csubj	_	_
5	JavaScript	javascript	PROPN	_	_	4	dobj	_	_
6	para	para	SCONJ	_	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leer	leer	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	los	el	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	comentarios	comentario	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	dobj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Gracias	gracia	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	Lupe	lupe	PROPN	_	_	1	dep	_	_
3	y	y	CONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	_
4	Ana	ana	PROPN	_	_	2	conj	_	_
5	por	por	ADP	_	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hacer	hacer	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	me	yo	PRON	_	Case=Acc,Dat|Number=Sing|Person=1|PrepCase=Npr|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	la	el	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vida	vida	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	6	dobj	_	_
10	más	más	ADV	_	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	fácil	fácil	ADJ	_	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Cuando	cuando	SCONJ	_	_	2	mark	_	_
2	camina	camina	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_
4	parece	parecer	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	lento	lento	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	y	y	CONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	_
7	cuidadoso	cuidadoso	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_


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