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appos: appositional modifier

appos marks nominal appositions to noun phrases. This includes parenthesized noun phrases and abbreviations that specify the modified noun.

Die neue Senatorin für Stadtentwicklung , Traute Müller , tritt heute ihren Dienst an . \n The new senator for city development , Traute Müller , assumes her office today . 
appos(Senatorin, Traute)
name(Traute, Müller)
das Niedersächsische Landeskriminalamt ( LKA ) \n the Lower-Saxonian state police office ( LKA ) 
appos(Landeskriminalamt, LKA)

Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

This relation is universal.

7159 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as appos.

7051 instances of appos (98%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.57535968710714.

The following 64 pairs of parts of speech are connected with appos: de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PROPN (3421; 48% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (1715; 24% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/NOUN (713; 10% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NOUN (402; 6% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/NUM (244; 3% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NUM (178; 2% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/NOUN (82; 1% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PROPN (32; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/NOUN (28; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADJ (28; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/X (25; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADJ (23; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PROPN (21; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PRON (16; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/X (15; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/NUM (12; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/VERB (12; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/NOUN (11; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PRON (11; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/VERB (10; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADV (10; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADJ (9; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADV (9; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/PROPN (7; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/NUM (7; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/PROPN (6; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PART (6; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PRON (6; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/X (3; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/X (2; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/PUNCT (2; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/X (2; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/X (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/CONJ-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances).

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1	Wurde	werden	AUX	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	auxpass	_	_
2	sehr	sehr	ADV	ADV	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	gut	gut	ADV	ADJD	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	von	von	ADP	APPR	_	6	case	_	_
5	der	der	DET	ART	Case=Dat|Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Kanzlei	Kanzlei	NOUN	NN	Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
7	Singewald	Singewald	PROPN	NN	_	6	appos	_	_
8	verteitigt	verteitigt	VERB	VVFIN	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	und	und	CONJ	KON	_	8	cc	_	_
10	gewonnen	gewinnen	VERB	VVPP	VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Rita	Rita	PROPN	NE	_	2	name	_	_
2	Neubauer	Neubauer	PROPN	NE	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	$(	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Havanna	Havanna	PROPN	NE	_	2	appos	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	$(	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fürchtet	fürchten	VERB	VVFIN	Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	noch	noch	ADV	ADV	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	Schlimmeres	Schlimmere	NOUN	NN	Case=Acc|Number=Plur	6	dobj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Super	Super	ADJ	NN	_	2	amod	_	_
2	Beratung	Beratung	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
3	--	--	PUNCT	$(	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Schöne	schön	ADJ	ADJA	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Ausstellung	Ausstellung	NOUN	NN	_	2	appos	_	_
6	mit	mit	ADP	APPR	_	8	case	_	_
7	tollen	toll	ADJ	ADJA	Case=Dat|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	8	amod	_	_
8	Ideen	Idee	NOUN	NN	Case=Dat|Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	2	punct	_	_


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