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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a verb is the noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon. The direct object is typically marked by the accusative case in Greek.

However, some verbs take objects in genitive:

In general, if there is just one object, it should be labeled dobj, regardless of the morphological case or semantic role that it bears.

When two objects are present, one of them is labeled as dobj and the other as iobj. Generally, the most directly affected object (patient) is marked as dobj. The one exception is when there is a clausal complement. Then the clausal complement is regarded as iobj “clausal direct object” and an object nominal will be an iobj. See iobj for more details.

See the expl relation for cases of clitic doubling.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Greek)

This relation is universal.

2640 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

2201 instances of dobj (83%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.61401515151515.

The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (2102; 80% instances), VERB-PRON (384; 15% instances), VERB-ADJ (44; 2% instances), NOUN-NOUN (30; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (28; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (19; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (11; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (8; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (6; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (3; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances).


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