obl:npmod: noun phrase as adverbial modifier
⚠️ DEPRECATED: Beginning with the version 2.15 release, most English corpora will use the new obl:unmarked relation instead. ⚠️
This relation is a subtype of the obl 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
obl:npmod(old, years)
6 feet long
obl:npmod(long, feet)
(ii) noun phrases giving an extent to a verb, which are not objects:
Shares eased a fraction
obl:npmod(eased, fraction)
(iv) floating reflexives
The silence is itself significant
obl:npmod(significant, itself)
and (v) certain other absolutive nominal constructions.
A temporal modifier obl:tmod is a subclass of obl which is distinguished as a separate relation.
obl:npmod in other languages: [en] [hbo] [he]