nmod
: nominal modifier
The nmod
relation is used for nominal dependents of another noun or noun phrase. We use the following language-specific subtypes:
nmod
: noun modifier functionally corresponds to an attribute,- nmod:poss: noun modifier functionally corresponds to possessive complement,
- nmod:npmod: noun phrase as nominal modifier.
In Armenian nmod
is used:
- for noun-noun modification with an attributive or associative relations between them:
nmod
nouns attached to nouns are usually in the nominative Case and precede the modified noun. There are alternations in ablative or instrumental cases.
Standard nmod
relation is used even when things are being counted in groups (with “massifiers”):
The nmod
relation is further specified by the case relation (associative modfication).
Note, that so-called “bare noun compounds” (e.g. թղթակից անդամ “corresponding member”) marked using the compound relation.
- for an explicative attribute of a noun or for noun modifier specifying the whole-part relation: a typical example is a title/profession attached to a name of a person. The relation is similar to the flat relation that links the first and the last name, but it is not labeled
flat
because the title is not part of the name:
Note that the same thing can be also expressed using an apposition. In the case of apposition, the title follows the modified name and is separated by a punctuation symbol:
nmod in other languages: [bej] [bg] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gd] [gsw] [gub] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [xcl] [yue] [zh]