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nsubj: nominal subject

The nsubj marks nominal subjects of the non-copular clause. Being Basque a morphologically ergative language, subjects of transitive verbs are marked with the ergative case, while subjects of intransitive verbs are marked with the absolutive case.

These two parts fold by the places that are marked .

Bi zati hauek markaturik dauden tokietatik tolesten dira .

Two parts these-abs marked are-that places aux-intrans-present .

The change has caused huge discussions .

Eztabaida handiak sortu ditu aldaketak .

Discussion huge-pl cause aux-trans-present change-erg.

Being Basque a free word order language, arguments of the verb can appear in different orders with respect to the verb.

The change has caused huge discussions .

Aldaketak eztabaida handiak sortu ditu .

Change-erg discussion huge-pl cause aux-trans-present.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

8717 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as nsubj.

7038 instances of nsubj (81%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.34828496042216.

The following 77 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubj: VERB-NOUN (4456; 51% instances), VERB-PROPN (1915; 22% instances), NOUN-NOUN (334; 4% instances), VERB-DET (318; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (300; 3% instances), VERB-PRON (221; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (205; 2% instances), NOUN-PROPN (158; 2% instances), VERB-NUM (100; 1% instances), NOUN-DET (85; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (85; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (42; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (39; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (37; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (33; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (27; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (26; 0% instances), X-NOUN (24; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (22; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (19; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (18; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (16; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (14; 0% instances), CONJ-NUM (13; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (13; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (13; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (12; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (9; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (9; 0% instances), X-PROPN (9; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (8; 0% instances), ADV-DET (8; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (8; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (8; 0% instances), PUNCT-DET (8; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (6; 0% instances), CONJ-ADJ (6; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (6; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (5; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (5; 0% instances), CONJ-DET (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (5; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (5; 0% instances), X-PRON (5; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (3; 0% instances), AUX-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-DET (3; 0% instances), DET-VERB (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), X-NUM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (2; 0% instances), CONJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-DET (2; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (2; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADJ (1; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PART-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), VERB-X (1; 0% instances), X-ADJ (1; 0% instances), X-DET (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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