advcl
: adverbial clause modifier
An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.) as a modifier, not as a core complement. This includes things, such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The head of the advcl relation is the predicate of the main clause, and the dependent is the main predicate of the dependent clause.
The advcl
relation is also used for comparative clauses, with the feature that is being compared acting as the head of the relation.
Third, the advcl
relation is also used for optional depictives (descriptive secondary predicates), with the main predicate acting as the head of the relation. This relation is used both when the referent of the optional depictive is explicitly present in the sentence as well as when it is not.
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