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root: root

The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node ROOT is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with 0, since the indexing of real words in the sentence starts at 1.

ROOT J' aime les frites . \n I love French fries .
root(ROOT, aime)
ROOT Il est grand . \n He is tall .
root(ROOT, grand)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

16446 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as root.

16446 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 7.70965584336617.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/VERB (11702; 71% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/NOUN (3126; 19% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/ADJ (1029; 6% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/PROPN (226; 1% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/PRON (201; 1% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/ADV (55; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/NUM (38; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/INTJ (31; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/SYM (13; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/X (13; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/AUX (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances).

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1	Mais	_	CONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	_
2	comment	_	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	faire	_	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	_
4	dans	_	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
5	un	_	DET	_	_	6	det	_	_
6	contexte	_	NOUN	_	_	3	nmod	_	_
7	structurellement	_	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	raciste	_	ADJ	_	_	6	amod	_	_
9	?	_	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	C'	_	PRON	_	_	9	nsubj	_	_
2	est	_	VERB	_	_	9	cop	_	_
3	véritablement	_	ADV	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	pour	_	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
5	le	_	DET	_	_	6	det	_	_
6	futur	_	NOUN	_	_	9	nmod	_	_
7	baptisé	_	VERB	_	_	6	acl	_	_
8	un	_	DET	_	_	9	det	_	_
9	changement	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	_
10	de	_	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	_
11	cap	_	NOUN	_	_	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	_	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_

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1	Il	_	PRON	_	_	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ne	_	PART	_	_	4	neg	_	_
3	sera	_	VERB	_	_	4	cop	_	_
4	présent	_	ADJ	_	_	0	root	_	_
5	que	_	ADV	_	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	durant	_	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
7	les	_	DET	_	_	10	det	_	_
8	10	_	NUM	_	_	10	nummod	_	_
9	premières	_	ADJ	_	_	10	amod	_	_
10	parties	_	NOUN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
11	.	_	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


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