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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

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.

L'accident s'est produit quand il faisait noir \n The accident happened when it was dark
advcl(produit, faisait)
Si tu sais qui l'a fait, tu devrais le dire au professeur \n If you know who did it, you should tell the teacher
advcl(dire, sais)
Il faut venir tôt pour avoir de la place \n One needs to get there early to have a seat
advcl(venir, avoir)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

2935 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2296 instances of advcl (78%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.803066439523.

The following 36 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (2297; 78% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/VERB (213; 7% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/VERB (130; 4% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (93; 3% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (57; 2% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADJ (21; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/VERB (19; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (16; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/VERB (14; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (14; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/VERB (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SCONJ-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	Elle	_	PRON	_	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lutte	_	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	_
3	pour	_	ADP	_	_	4	mark	_	_
4	échapper	_	VERB	_	_	2	advcl	_	_
5	à	_	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	les	_	DET	_	_	7	det	_	_
7	tueurs	_	NOUN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
8	à	_	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
9	ses	_	DET	_	_	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	trousses	_	NOUN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
11	.	_	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Une	_	DET	_	_	3	det	_	_
2	bonne	_	ADJ	_	_	3	amod	_	_
3	raison	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	_
4	pour	_	ADP	_	_	5	mark	_	_
5	faire	_	VERB	_	_	3	advcl	_	_
6	un	_	DET	_	_	7	det	_	_
7	détour	_	NOUN	_	_	5	dobj	_	_
8	à	_	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	saint	_	NOUN	_	_	7	nmod	_	_
10	Jean	_	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
11	de	_	ADP	_	_	9	compound	_	_
12	Maurienne	_	PROPN	_	_	9	name	_	_
13	.	_	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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# visual-style 6 10 advcl	color:blue
1	Il	_	PRON	_	_	6	nsubj	_	_
2	n'	_	PART	_	_	6	neg	_	_
3	est	_	VERB	_	_	6	cop	_	_
4	pas	_	ADV	_	_	6	neg	_	_
5	aussi	_	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	anxieux	_	ADJ	_	_	0	root	_	_
7	qu'	_	SCONJ	_	_	10	mark	_	_
8	il	_	PRON	_	_	10	nsubj	_	_
9	y	_	PRON	_	_	10	expl	_	_
10	paraît	_	VERB	_	_	6	advcl	_	_
11	.	_	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_


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