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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.

Killar , ta det lungt ! \n Guys , take it easy!
vocative(ta, Killar)
David , hur är läget ? \n David, how 's it going ?
vocative(hur, David)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This relation is universal.

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

1 instances of vocative (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative: sv-pos/VERB-sv-pos/NOUN (1; 100% instances).

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1	Fatta	fatta	VERB	VB|IMP|AKT	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	mod	mod	NOUN	NN|NEU|SIN|IND|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	MID	_	1	punct	_	_
4	hemmakvinnor	hemmakvinna	NOUN	NN|UTR|PLU|IND|NOM	Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Gender=Com|Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	MAD	_	1	punct	_	_


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