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`acl`: clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause)

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal. The acl relation contrasts with the advcl relation, which is used for adverbial clauses that modify a predicate. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.



  
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the issues as he sees them
acl(issues, sees)
{
    "text": "the issues as he sees them ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-1-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 3 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T2", "token", [ [ 4, 10 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T3", "token", [ [ 11, 13 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T4", "token", [ [ 14, 16 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T5", "token", [ [ 17, 21 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-1-T6", "token", [ [ 22, 26 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-1-R1", "acl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-1-T2" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-1-T5" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "1" ]
}



  
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Cette affaire à suivre \n This case to follow 
acl(affaire, suivre)
{
    "text": "Cette affaire à suivre \n This case to follow ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-2-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 5 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T2", "token", [ [ 6, 13 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T3", "token", [ [ 14, 15 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T4", "token", [ [ 16, 22 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T6", "token", [ [ 25, 29 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T7", "token", [ [ 30, 34 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T8", "token", [ [ 35, 37 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-2-T9", "token", [ [ 38, 44 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-2-R1", "acl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-2-T2" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-2-T4" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "2" ]
}

This relation is also used for optional depictives. The adjective is taken to modify the nominal of which it provides a secondary predication. See xcomp for further discussion of resultatives and depictives.



  
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She entered the room sad
acl(She, sad)
{
    "text": "She entered the room sad ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-3-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 3 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-T2", "token", [ [ 4, 11 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-T3", "token", [ [ 12, 15 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-T4", "token", [ [ 16, 20 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-3-T5", "token", [ [ 21, 24 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-3-R1", "acl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-3-T1" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-3-T5" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "3" ]
}



  
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He painted the model naked
acl(model, naked)
{
    "text": "He painted the model naked ",
    "entities": [
        [ "embedded-4-T1", "token", [ [ 0, 2 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-T2", "token", [ [ 3, 10 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-T3", "token", [ [ 11, 14 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-T4", "token", [ [ 15, 20 ] ] ],
        [ "embedded-4-T5", "token", [ [ 21, 26 ] ] ]
    ],
    "relations": [
        [ "embedded-4-R1", "acl", [ [ "arg1", "embedded-4-T4" ], [ "arg2", "embedded-4-T5" ] ] ]
    ],
    "attributes": [],
    "error": false,
    "sentlabels": [ "4" ]
}

A relative clause is an instance of acl, characterized by finiteness and usually omission of the modified noun in the embedded clause. Some languages use a language-particular subtype for the traditional class of relative clauses.

I saw the man you love
acl(man, love)

Some languages allow finite clausal complements for nouns with a subset of nouns like fact or report. These look roughly like relative clauses, but do not have any omitted role in the dependent clause. This is the class of “content clauses” in Huddleston and Pullum 2002). These are also analyzed as acl.

the fact that nobody cares
acl(fact, cares)

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

acl: clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause)

`acl`: clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause)