mark
: marker
A marker (mark
) is the subordinating conjunction in a
non-complement subordinate clause.
The dependency relation mark
is also used to identify the
complementizer appearing in most clausal complements, where the head
of the dependency is the main verb of the subordinate clause. The only
complementizer in Finnish is että “that”. (These relations are
annotated complm
in TDT.)
The comparative conjunction (most commonly kuin, which corresponds
roughly to “than” and “as” in English) is marked with the dependency
type mark
. The head of the dependency is the element
being compared.
The main subordinating conjunctions are the following:
- että “that”
- jotta “so that”
- koska “because”
- kun “when”
- jos “if”
- vaikka “even though”
- kunnes “until”
- kuin “as, than”
Note that the conjunction kuin can also serve as an adverb modifier advmod.
In addition to the basic subordinating conjunctions, the following words or word combinations can be considered subordinating conjunctions. Not all of these expressions have a direct counterpart in English, and thus the translations are approximate.
- ennenkuin “before”
- jahka “as soon as”
- jos kohta “even if”
- kun taas “whereas”
- kuten “like, as”
- mikäli “if”
- mitä nyt “only”
- muuten “otherwise”
- niin “so”
- niinkuin/niinku “like” (standard and colloquial version)
- paitsi “except”
- paitsi että “except that”
- paitsi jos “except if”
- sikäli kuin “if”
- sillä “because”
- sitten kun “then when”
- vähän kuin “a bit like”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)
This relation is universal.
3454 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as mark
.
3453 instances of mark
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.329473074696.
The following 30 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark
: VERB-SCONJ (2521; 73% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (330; 10% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (222; 6% instances), VERB-VERB (167; 5% instances), ADV-SCONJ (68; 2% instances), PRON-SCONJ (41; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (37; 1% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (17; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (8; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (5; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (5; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (5; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (4; 0% instances), AUX-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), INTJ-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (2; 0% instances), SYM-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADJ-CONJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (1; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances), X-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)
This relation is universal.
There are 1 language-specific subtypes of mark
: mark:comparator.
3623 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as mark
.
3556 instances of mark
(98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 2.9732266077836.
The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark
: VERB-SCONJ (3032; 84% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (290; 8% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (212; 6% instances), PRON-SCONJ (38; 1% instances), ADV-SCONJ (24; 1% instances), PROPN-SCONJ (12; 0% instances), NUM-SCONJ (9; 0% instances), INTJ-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ADP-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), X-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).
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