vocative
: vocative
The vocative
relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in a text (common in conversations, dialogue, emails, newsgroup postings, etc.).
The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence.
If the nominal is clearly vocative in intent, it is preferable to use the vocative
relation.
A vocative
commonly co-occurs with a null subject.
The specialization vocative:mention is used for Twitter @-mentions.
vocative in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]