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dobj: direct object

The dobj label is used to mark the relationship between a verb and its direct object.

Examples

Bhailigh siad eolas ‘They collected information

Note that the object of an infinitival phrase occurs before the infinitive form (Verbal Noun), despite Irish being a VSO language.

eolas a chur ar fáil ‘to make information available’

Impersonal/autonomous verbs are used to create phrases similar to the English passive. However, unlike English, the object does not become the subject of this verb form, and remains labelled as dobj.

An lá a cuireadh é ‘The day he was buried’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

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

503 instances of dobj (58%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.6234067207416.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (348; 40% instances), NOUN-NOUN (257; 30% instances), VERB-PART (106; 12% instances), VERB-PRON (73; 8% instances), NOUN-PRON (27; 3% instances), VERB-PROPN (11; 1% instances), VERB-X (6; 1% instances), NOUN-PROPN (5; 1% instances), NOUN-PART (4; 0% instances), X-NOUN (4; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (3; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADP-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), PART-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances), X-PART (1; 0% instances), X-PRON (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).


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