Treebank Statistics: UD_English-EWT: Relations: vocative
This relation is universal.
182 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as vocative
.
104 instances of vocative
(57%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 3.40659340659341.
The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with vocative
: VERB-PROPN (56; 31% instances), NOUN-PROPN (43; 24% instances), VERB-NOUN (19; 10% instances), INTJ-PROPN (15; 8% instances), NOUN-NOUN (12; 7% instances), ADJ-PROPN (11; 6% instances), ADV-PROPN (7; 4% instances), INTJ-NOUN (7; 4% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-DET (2; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 1% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 1% instances), INTJ-PRON (1; 1% instances), NUM-PROPN (1; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 1% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 1% instances).