nmod:npmod: noun phrase as adverbial modifier
This relation is a subtype of the nmod relation, which captures the following cases where something syntactically a noun phrase is used as an adverbial modifier in a sentence:
(i) a measure phrase, which is the relation between the head of an adjectival/adverbial or prepositional phrase and the head of a measure phrase modifying it:
The director is 65 years old
nmod:npmod(old, years)
6 feet long
nmod:npmod(long, feet)
(ii) noun phrases giving an extent to a verb, which are not objects:
Shares eased a fraction
nmod:npmod(eased, fraction)
(iii) financial constructions involving an adverbial, notably the following construction $5 a share, where the second nominal means “per share”:
IBM earned $ 5 a share
nmod:npmod($, share)
(iv) floating reflexives
The silence is itself significant
nmod:npmod(significant, itself)
and (v) certain other absolutive nominal constructions.
A temporal modifier nmod:tmod is a subclass of npmod which is distinguished as a separate relation.
nmod:npmod in other languages: [en] [he] [hy] [hyw]