Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GUM: Relations: root
This relation is universal.
4399 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as root.
4399 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 5.58877017503978.
The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: -VERB (3051; 69% instances), -NOUN (719; 16% instances), -ADJ (290; 7% instances), -PROPN (248; 6% instances), -NUM (28; 1% instances), -PRON (20; 0% instances), -ADV (18; 0% instances), -INTJ (12; 0% instances), -X (5; 0% instances), -SCONJ (3; 0% instances), -PART (2; 0% instances), -ADP (1; 0% instances), -AUX (1; 0% instances), -CCONJ (1; 0% instances).
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1 Leading Leading VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _
2 Dutch Dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _
3 Librarians Librarian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _
4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _
5 DH DH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _
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1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _
2 Beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _
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1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _
2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _
3 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _
4 under under ADP IN _ 6 case _ _
5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _
6 bleachers bleacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No
7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _