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This page pertains to UD version 2.

English Dependency Relations

The following table lists the 37 universal syntactic relations used in UD v2, but links to English-specific documentation (if available).

Note: nmod, neg and punct appear in two places.

Core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep
nsubj csubj
nsubjpass csubjpass
obj ccomp xcomp
iobj
Non-core dependents of clausal predicates
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
  advcl advmod
nmod   neg
↳nmod:npmod
↳nmod:tmod
↳nmod:poss
Special clausal dependents
Nominal dep Auxiliary Other
vocative aux mark
discourse auxpass punct
expl cop
Noun dependents
Nominal dep Predicate dep Modifier word
nummod acl amod
  ↳acl:relcl
appos   det
    ↳det:predet
nmod   neg
Compounding and unanalyzed
compound fixed goeswith
↳compound:prt
flat foreign
Coordination
conj cc punct
  ↳cc:preconj
Case-marking, prepositions, possessive
case
Loose joining relations
list parataxis orphan
dislocated reparandum
Other
Sentence head Unspecified dependency
root dep