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 vocative relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence and depends on the head of the main clause. A vocative commonly co-occurs with a null subject. In Lithuanian, the addressee’s name must appear in the vocative case form.
Ar supratot , studentai ? \n Did you-understand , students ?
vocative(supratot, studentai)
vocative(you-understand, students)
Markai , ar eini kartu ? \n Mark , are-you-coming together ?
vocative(eini, Markai)
vocative(are-you-coming, Mark)
Note that vocatives that function as interjections are labeled discourse and not vocative, for example, Viešpatie, kas dabar bus? (Lord, what will happen now?)
vocative in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gd] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [lt] [naq] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]