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dobj: direct object

A direct object is a nominal which is the (accusative) object of the verbal predicate.

The dobj relation is also used for a reflexive pronoun in pronominal verb when the pronoun is a direct object of the verb. When the grammatical relation of the pronoun is not a direct object nor an indirect object (as in se douter “to suspect”), the pronoun gets analyzed as expl.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

15016 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

11338 instances of dobj (76%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.22602557272243.

The following 37 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (10224; 68% instances), VERB-PRON (3718; 25% instances), VERB-PROPN (738; 5% instances), VERB-SYM (49; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (42; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (39; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (25; 0% instances), VERB-X (25; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (23; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (23; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (19; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (13; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (10; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (8; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (8; 0% instances), NUM-PRON (6; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (5; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (4; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (4; 0% instances), ADP-PROPN (3; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (2; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-X (1; 0% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-X (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (1; 0% instances), VERB-INTJ (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances), X-PROPN (1; 0% instances).


dobj in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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