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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.

Examples:

Slán leat , a chara `Goodbye , friend

Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad, go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat `I think Mairead, that I’m in love with you’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

20 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative.

13 instances of vocative (65%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 6.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: VERB-PROPN (6; 30% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 25% instances), VERB-NOUN (5; 25% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 5% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 5% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 5% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 5% instances).


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