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nmod: nominal modifier

The nmod relation is used for nominal modifiers. They depend either on another noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).
In Italian, nmod is used for non-prepositional and prepositional complements; the most common complements are temporal, place and specification.

Vi sono migliaia di casi di questo genere . 
nmod(migliaia, casi)
nmod(casi, genere)
Da il '93 dirige il Festival di Taormina 
nmod(dirige, '93)
nmod(Festival, Taormina)
Esodo controllato a Civitavecchia . 
nmod(Esodo, Civitavecchia)
E' stato trent' anni fa parlamentare comunista. 
nmod(parlamentare, anni)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

41953 nodes (14%) are attached to their parents as nmod.

37241 instances of nmod (89%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.90927943174505.

The following 78 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod: it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NOUN (16306; 39% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/NOUN (12899; 31% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PROPN (4670; 11% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PROPN (1548; 4% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/NOUN (1174; 3% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PRON (1050; 3% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PROPN (670; 2% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/NOUN (518; 1% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PRON (470; 1% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/NOUN (442; 1% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/NOUN (357; 1% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/NUM (332; 1% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PRON (209; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NUM (189; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/NOUN (161; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADJ (126; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PROPN (111; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/PROPN (78; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/VERB (71; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADJ (68; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/PRON (66; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/VERB (37; 0% instances), it-pos/SYM-it-pos/NOUN (34; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/SYM (30; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/PRON (23; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADP (23; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/SYM (20; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/ADJ (20; 0% instances), it-pos/ADP-it-pos/NOUN (18; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/NUM (17; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/PROPN (15; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/PROPN (15; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PRON (14; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/X (13; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/NUM (11; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/SYM (10; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/PRON (10; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/X (10; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/NUM (9; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/VERB (8; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADJ (7; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/NOUN (7; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), it-pos/SCONJ-it-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/SCONJ (5; 0% instances), it-pos/ADP-it-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), it-pos/CONJ-it-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), it-pos/SYM-it-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/NUM (3; 0% instances), it-pos/INTJ-it-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/X (3; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADP-it-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/X (2; 0% instances), it-pos/PUNCT-it-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), it-pos/INTJ-it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PUNCT (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/X (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PUNCT (1; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Vi	vi	PRON	PC	PronType=Clit	2	expl	_	_
2	sono	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	migliaia	migliaio	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	di	di	ADP	E	_	5	case	_	_
5	casi	caso	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	di	di	ADP	E	_	8	case	_	_
7	questo	questo	DET	DD	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	genere	genere	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Stia	stare	VERB	V	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	ADP	E	_	3	case	_	_
3	casa	casa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	lo	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stesso	stesso	ADV	B	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Ecco	ecco	ADV	B	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	l'	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	arringa	arringa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	di	di	ADP	E	_	5	case	_	_
5	Tiziana	Tiziana	PROPN	SP	_	3	nmod	_	_
6	Maiolo	Maiolo	PROPN	SP	_	5	name	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	3	punct	_	_


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