compound: compound
The compound relation is presently used for two constructions.
- Reduplicated adjectives.
- deug ‘ten’ at the end of a numeric phrase (numbers to the left of the noun they are counting are
nummod.
Currently noun–noun compounds are annotated with nmod.
Examples
Reduplicated adjectives and adverbs
The motivation here is that they can appear both attributively and predicatively and the use is to intensify the meaning.
Attributive: lèabagan mòra mòra an fheadhainn ud ‘very big flounders those ones’ (c10_161)
1 lèabagan lèabag NOUN Ncpfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 0 root _ _
2 mòra mòr ADJ Aq-pfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 1 amod _ _
3 mòra mòr ADJ Aq-pfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 2 compound _ _
4 an an DET Tdsf Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 det _ _
5 fheadhainn feadhainn NOUN Ncsfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _
6 ud ud DET Dd _ 5 det _ _
tràigh mhòr mhòr mhòr ‘a very very low tide’ (c06_082a)
1 tràigh tràigh NOUN Ncsfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
2 mhòr mòr ADJ Aq-sfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 amod _ _
3 mhòr mòr ADJ Aq-sfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 compound _ _
4 mhòr mòr ADJ Aq-sfn Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 compound _ __
Predicative: cha robh e ach beag beag ‘it was nothing but really small’ (c10_165)
1 cha cha PART Qn PartType=Cmpl|Polarity=Neg 2 mark:prt _ _
2 robh bi VERB V-s--d Tense=Past 0 root _ _
3 e e PRON Pp3sm Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 nsubj _ _
4 ach ach ADP Sp _ 5 case _ _
5 beag beag ADJ Ap _ 2 xcomp:pred _ _
6 beag beag ADJ Ap _ 5 compound _ _
If on the other hand there is a sequence of adjectives that aren’t all the same adjective then they are connected to whatever they describe separately and with their own relations:
fhìor sheann fhreumhan ‘very old roots’ (fp07_007)
28 fhìor fìor ADJ Ar _ 29 amod _ _
29 sheann seann ADJ Ar _ 30 amod _ _
30 fhreumhan freumh NOUN Ncpmd Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 26 obl _ _
deug
an naodhamh latha deug ‘the nineteenth day’ (fp06_001)
1 an an DET Tdsm Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 det _ _
2 naodhamh naodhamh NUM Mo _ 3 nummod _ _
3 latha latha NOUN Ncsmn Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ _
4 deug deug NUM Mc _ 3 compound _ _
compound in other languages: [bej] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gsw] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]