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compound:lvc: light verb construction

In conjunct verb (or noun-verb concatenation) constructions, a semantically bleached light verb combines with a noun/adjective/adverb to form a single complex, taking semantics from the non-verbal component. The head is the verb.

Note that a genitive-case object is not treated as a nmod dependent of the nominal, but rather an obj argument to the verb.

ਮੈਂ ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼ ਦਾ ਅਨੁਵਾਦ ਕੀਤਾ \n I document GEN translation did
compound:lvc(ਕੀਤਾ, ਅਨੁਵਾਦ)
compound:lvc(did, translation)
obj(ਕੀਤਾ, ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼)
obj(did, document)
ਮੈਂ ਕਮਰਾ ਸਾਫ਼ ਕਰ ਰਿਹਾ ਹਾਂ \n I room clean do PROG am
compound:lvc(ਕਰ, ਸਾਫ਼)
compound:lvc(do, clean)
obj(ਕਰ, ਕਮਰਾ)
obj(do, room)

compound:lvc in other languages: [hy] [pa] [tr] [tt] [u]