acl:relcl: relative clause modifier
acl:relcl connects a clause to a noun phrase.
Usually the verb is marked by the relative particle a but this may be omitted in speech.
Examples
1 Thàinig thig VERB V-s Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _
2 nighean nighean NOUN Ncsfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _
3 a a PART Q-r PartType=Vb|PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _
4 bha bi VERB V-s Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _
5 a' ag PART Sa _ 6 case _ _
6 frìthealadh frìtheal NOUN Nv VerbForm=Vnoun 4 xcomp:pred _ _
7 is is CCONJ Cc _ 8 cc _ _
8 dh'iarr iarr VERB V-s Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _
9 Màiri Màiri PROPN Nn-fn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem 8 nsubj _ _
10 cupa cupa NOUN Ncsmn Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 obj _ _
11 ti ti NOUN Ncsfg Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No
‘The girl who was serving came and Màiri ordered a cup of tea.’ (f01_089)
1 facal facal NOUN Ncsmn Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
2-3 den _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2 de de ADP Sp _ 4 case _ _
3 an an DET Tds Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art 4 det _ _
4 chànain cànan NOUN Ncsfd Case=Dat|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _
5 anns an ADP Sp _ 7 case _ _
6 an an PART Qq PartType=Vb|PronType=Int 7 mark:prt _ _
7 robh bi VERB V-s--d Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _
8 ise i PRON Pp3sf-e Form=Emp|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _
9 cho cho ADV Rg AdvType=Man 10 advmod _ _
10 fileanta fileanta ADJ Ap _ 7 xcomp:pred _ SpaceAfter=No
‘a word of the language in which she was so fluent’ (f01_097)
Related deprels
- acl for “content clauses”. These have no relative particle.
- advcl:relcl for the analogous case where the head is an adverb or possibly an adjective or adverb.
- csubj:cleft for where a relative clause is part of a cleft sentence.
- csubj:cop for where a relative clause is part of a different sort of sentence including a copula.
acl:relcl in other languages: [ab] [bej] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [hbo] [hy] [id] [it] [naq] [no] [oc] [pa] [pcm] [pro] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [scn] [sv] [swl] [u] [urj] [vi]