parataxis
: parataxis
The parataxis relation (from Greek for “place side by side”) is a relation between the main verb of a clause and other sentential elements, such as a sentential parenthetical, a clause after a “:” or a “;”, or two sentences placed side by side without any explicit coordination or subordination. More information can be found on the universal dependency page (parataxis)
Treebank Statistics (UD_French)
This relation is universal.
600 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as parataxis
.
543 instances of parataxis
(91%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 13.8033333333333.
The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with parataxis
: VERB-VERB (315; 53% instances), NOUN-VERB (100; 17% instances), ADJ-VERB (54; 9% instances), VERB-NOUN (36; 6% instances), VERB-ADJ (24; 4% instances), NOUN-ADJ (16; 3% instances), NOUN-NOUN (9; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (8; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (8; 1% instances), PROPN-VERB (5; 1% instances), VERB-PROPN (4; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (3; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (3; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances).
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