nmod:own: haver
In Finnish, there is no direct equivalent to the verb have. Rather, having is expressed using the verb olla, to be. For instance, the meaning of the sentence I have a pen would be expressed in Finnish by Minulla on kynä, literally “At me is a pen”, with “me” in the adessive and “pen” in the nominative case. In UD Finnish, these so called possessive clauses (omistuslause) are analyzed as a subtype to existential clauses, (eksistentiaalilause) making the thing had (kynä in the previous example) the subject.
This kind of an analysis would naturally result in the haver being
marked as a nominal modifier, nmod. However, as nmod is a very
frequent dependency type that encodes many different meanings, the
information that the clause is about having or owning would be
lost. Therefore, the UD Finnish scheme applies the nmod:own
dependency type for nominal modifiers that encode owning,
following the approach of TDT.
The governor of the dependency is the verb olla, and the dependent
is the haver or owner, which is required to be in the adessive case.
The haver must also be an animate being or a group of animate beings.