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case: case marking

case marks mostly prepositions in prepositional phrases. Prepositions are considered dependents of the noun whose case value they govern. The case relation aims at providing a uniform analysis of prepositions and case in morphologically rich languages.

Sie stehen an der Straße . \n They stand on the street .
case(Straße, an)
Sie warten auf den Bus . \n They wait for the bus .
case(Bus, auf)

case is also used to mark the comparative marker in comparative constructions that involve noun phrases, prepositional phrases, or adjectives.

Der Bus ist schneller als die Straßenbahn . \n The bus is faster than the tram .
case(Straßenbahn, als)
Das sieht alles andere als einfach aus . \n This looks anything but simple .
case(einfach, als)

Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

This relation is universal.

31693 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as case.

31216 instances of case (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.05581674186729.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with case: de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/ADP (21079; 67% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/ADP (6751; 21% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/ADP (1245; 4% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/ADP (994; 3% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PROPN (733; 2% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/ADP (324; 1% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/ADP (192; 1% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/ADP (172; 1% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/CONJ (55; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PUNCT (20; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/ADP (18; 0% instances), de-pos/ADP-de-pos/ADP (16; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/CONJ (13; 0% instances), de-pos/DET-de-pos/ADP (12; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/X (12; 0% instances), de-pos/PRON-de-pos/CONJ (10; 0% instances), de-pos/ADJ-de-pos/CONJ (7; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/CONJ (7; 0% instances), de-pos/AUX-de-pos/ADP (6; 0% instances), de-pos/CONJ-de-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), de-pos/PART-de-pos/ADP (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), de-pos/PROPN-de-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PUNCT (2; 0% instances), de-pos/VERB-de-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances), de-pos/ADV-de-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NOUN-de-pos/X (1; 0% instances), de-pos/NUM-de-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), de-pos/X-de-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Es	es	PRON	PPER	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	war	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	für	für	ADP	APPR	_	4	case	_	_
4	mich	ich	PRON	PPER	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
5	Ausgangspunkt	Ausgangspunkt	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
6	zu	zu	ADP	APPR	_	8	case	_	_
7	einer	ein	DET	ART	Case=Dat|Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Parfümkreation	Parfümkreation	NOUN	NN	Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Für	für	ADP	APPR	_	2	case	_	_
2	mich	ich	PRON	PPER	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
3	die	der	DET	ART	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Anwaltskanzlei	Anwaltskanzlei	NOUN	NN	_	6	cop	_	_
5	Nummer	Nummer	NOUN	NN	_	6	compound	_	_
6	EINS	EINS	NOUN	VVFIN	_	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	APPR	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dresden	Dresden	PROPN	NE	_	6	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Seit	seit	ADP	APPR	_	2	case	_	_
2	1964	1964	NUM	CARD	NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
3	ist	sein	VERB	VAFIN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	mein	mein	PRON	PPOSAT	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc,Neut|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	det:poss	_	_
5	Mann	Mann	NOUN	NN	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc,Neut|Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	rund	rund	ADV	ADV	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CARD	NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mal	mal	ADV	ADV	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	pro	pro	ADP	APPR	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jahr	Jahr	NOUN	NN	_	8	nmod	_	_
11	Gast	Gast	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	APPR	_	14	case	_	_
13	diesem	dies	PRON	PDAT	Case=Dat|Gender=Masc,Neut|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	Hotel	Hotel	NOUN	NN	Case=Dat|Gender=Masc,Neut|Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	$.	_	11	punct	_	_


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