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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. A vocative commonly co-occurs with a null subject, as in the first example below. If the nominal is clearly vocative in intent, the preference is to use the vocative relation.

Senhor , fale!
vocative(fale, Senhor)
Sr. Oliveira , o seu filme é o meu favorito .
vocative(favorito, Oliveira)

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