advcl:relcl: adverbial relative clause modifier
advcl:relcl connects a clause to an adverb, adjective or possibly a verb.
Usually the verb is marked by the relative particle a but this may be omitted in speech.
Examples
Clauses related to comparatives (this is most common in the corpus):
nas fheàrr na tha sinn fhìn
advcl:relcl(tha, fheàrr)
mark:prt(na, tha)
nsubj(sinn, tha)
‘better than we are ourselves’ (f05_007)
and adverbs of time:
gun robh uaireigin a bhiodh a athair o chionn fada a' rèic èisg
advcl:relcl(bhiodh, uaireigin)
mark:prt(a, bhiodh)
nsubj(athair,bhiodh)
‘that sometimes his father long ago would sell fish’ (c08_046)
Related deprels
- acl:relcl for the analogous case where the head is a noun phrase.
- 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.
advcl:relcl in other languages: [de] [el] [en] [gd] [gu] [hy] [hyw] [it] [la] [pl] [sv] [u] [yrl]