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dobj: direct object

The direct object of a verb is the second most core argument of a verb after the subject. Typically, it is the noun phrase that denotes the entity acted upon or which undergoes a change of state or motion (the proto-patient). A direct object is a nominal which is the (accusative) object of the verbal predicate.

The dobj relation is also used to mark real reflexive constructions where the clitic pronoun is a direct object of the verb.

dobj is also used in those cases where the direct object has no independent semantic value but it creates a unique semantic element together with the verb.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

10030 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as dobj.

8801 instances of dobj (88%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.34346959122632.

The following 23 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dobj: VERB-NOUN (7901; 79% instances), VERB-PRON (1587; 16% instances), VERB-PROPN (392; 4% instances), VERB-NUM (56; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (21; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (13; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (9; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (9; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (7; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (7; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (5; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (3; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 0% instances), VERB-X (2; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (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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