aux:pass: passive auxiliary
In this treatment of the rach periphrastic passive in Scottish Gaelic, rach is treated as an auxiliary and the head of the passive construction is the infinitive. The passive subject is a dependent on the infinitive with the relation nsubj:pass.
Surface forms of rach include chaidh (past), thèid (future), deach (dependent), deachadh and rachadh (conditional).
Examples
chaidh e sin a mhilleadh cho luath ‘s a thàinig e
‘That one was destroyed as quickly as it came’
1 chaidh rach AUX V-s Tense=Past 5 aux:pass _ _
2 e e PRON Pp3sm Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 nsubj:pass _ _
3 sin sin DET Dd _ 2 det _ _
4 a a PART Ug PartType=Inf 5 mark:prt _ _
5 mhilleadh mill NOUN Nv VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _
6 cho cho ADV Rg _ 7 advmod _ _
7 luath luath ADV Rg _ 5 advmod _ _
8 's 's CCONJ Cc _ 10 cc _ _
9 a a PART Q-r PartType=Vb|PronType=Rel 10 mark:prt _ _
10 thàinig thig VERB V-s Tense=Past 7 conj _ _
11 e e PRON Pp3sm Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 nsubj _ _
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