Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GUM: Relations: root
This relation is universal.
12146 nodes (6%) are attached to their parents as root
.
12146 instances of root
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 5.51053844887206.
The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root
: -VERB (7729; 64% instances), -NOUN (1730; 14% instances), -ADJ (939; 8% instances), -PROPN (565; 5% instances), -INTJ (476; 4% instances), -ADV (224; 2% instances), -PRON (170; 1% instances), -NUM (135; 1% instances), -AUX (109; 1% instances), -X (20; 0% instances), -DET (16; 0% instances), -PART (10; 0% instances), -ADP (9; 0% instances), -CCONJ (8; 0% instances), -SYM (6; 0% instances).