Treebank Statistics: UD_English-EWT: Relations: root
This relation is universal.
16622 nodes (7%) are attached to their parents as root
.
16622 instances of root
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 4.49572855252076.
The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root
: -VERB (9254; 56% instances), -NOUN (2746; 17% instances), -ADJ (1711; 10% instances), -PROPN (1646; 10% instances), -NUM (425; 3% instances), -ADV (250; 2% instances), -PRON (135; 1% instances), -INTJ (128; 1% instances), -SYM (124; 1% instances), -PUNCT (85; 1% instances), -AUX (64; 0% instances), -X (28; 0% instances), -DET (23; 0% instances), -PART (3; 0% instances).